THOMAS DAY SEYMOUR. 865 



gave two suniiner courses of lectures in Chautauqua, one in Chicago, 

 another in CaHfornia. 



Notwithstanding his devotion to his college duties, he found much 

 time for writing. He presented fifteen papers at sessions of the 

 American Philological Association. When president of the Associa- 

 tion, he chose as the subject of his address ' Philological Study in 

 America.' He was one of the editors of the Classical Review, published 

 in London, and an editor, also, of the College Series of Greek Authors. 

 He wrote three of the volumes in this series, revised another, and put 

 twelve others through the press. He published his first book in 1882, 

 an excellent edition of Select Odes of Pindar. Men always interested 

 him, ancient or modern, and in 1888 he published in the Chautau- 

 quan a series of studies of nine characters illustrious in the annals of 

 Greece. He was the best Homeric scholar that America has produced. 

 His contributions to the study and interpretation of Homer were 

 numerous and diverse, editions of parts of the poems for use in school 

 and college, an introduction to the language and verse of Homer, 

 reviews and original articles in journals, and finally his Life in the 

 Homeric Age, published shortly before his death, his largest single 

 contribution to knowledge, and that on which his fame as scholar 

 and expositor will chiefly and securely rest. 



The introduction of elective studies in American colleges compelled 

 sharp attention to methods of teaching in all departments of knowl- 

 edge. On none was the effect more immediate than on that of the 

 classics. It soon became apparent that the best and broadest provi- 

 sion of training for teachers in this subject must include study in 

 Greece and Italy. The Archaeological Institute of America was 

 founded by Charles Norton in 1879, the American School of Classical 

 Studies in Athens in 1881. Professor Seymour became the second 

 chairman of the managing committee of the school in 1887, and held 

 this influential but arduous position fourteen years. During his 

 administration, the building occupied by the School was finished, 

 the endowment was increased, the principle of a permanent director- 

 ship and of annual professorships was established, five volumes of 

 papers were published, fellowships were founded, and important 

 excavations were conducted; but the worthiest monument of his 

 devotion to this cause is one hundred men and women that studied 

 at the School during his time and are now nearly all teachers of the 

 classics. He resigned the chairmanship of the managing committee 

 of the School to become in 1903 the fourth president of the Archaeo- 

 logical Institute. This also is an arduous position, but Seymour had 



