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...important preliminary arrangements for its inauguration next fall have been made, and it only remains for certain minor details of preparation to be completed and for the director and students to sail for Greece, in order that the school may actually begin its proper work in the chosen field...
...American school at Athens is the direct offspring of the Archaeological Institute of America; the Archaeological Institute of America itself was in the first place a child of Harvard; therefore, the relations of the three are of the most intimate nature. The Archaeological Institute was organized in 1879 with Charles Eliot Norton as president, and with Prof. Goodwin and Alexander Agassiz on the board of directors. Since its organization its work has grown to be of national importance. The two most important results of its labors hitherto have been the well-known explorations carried on recently in Mexico...
...December 20th, 1881, circulars were issued by a committee of the institute setting forth a "project for the creation at Athens of an American School of Classical Literature, Art and Antiquities, upon the plan of the well-known French and German schools already established there," a project which had been under discussion in the institute for a considerable time. That committee then consisted of Prof. J. W. White (chairman), Prof. E. W. Gurney, Prof. Albert Harkness, Messrs. T. W. Ludlow, F. W. Palfrey; since that time the following names have been added to the committee : Fred'k J. d Peyster...
...school shall be in charge of a director, whose duty it shall be to superintend the work of the school and its members and to make an annual report thereon to the committee. There will be no prescribed course of study for members, excepting the presentation of four theses annually upon work done during the year. The course shall extend to three years. For the present, members are to be chosen and sent by the various cooperating colleges as they see fit. It is expected that there will be eight or ten pupils at the school next year, and among...
...York, Michigan, University of Virginia, Union, Trinity and Wesleyan. The answers which they have returned to the invitation of the committee have been in the main very favorable. Professor Goodwin was the unanimous choice of the committee as the fittest man for the position of first director of the school...