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fitting for us as for any other moderns, and we might as reasonably 

 leave the science of astronomy or that of mathematics to the other 

 nations of the world, sure that it would not be neglected though we 

 did not pursue it, as to leave to the peoples of Europe the advanced 

 study of classical archeology and philology. Our manner of life 

 and our literature are so founded upon those of the ancients that 

 we cannot properly understand the present without an appreciation of 

 the past. Largely through the opportunities offered by the American 

 School of Classical Studies at Athens and its sister school in Rome, 

 about two hundred of the classical teachers of our country have been 

 brought into direct relations with the antiquities of Greece and Italy. 

 We have as yet, however, only four or five classical archeologists 

 who in training and attainments are worthy to be classed with the 

 European university teachers of archeology. Work in connection 

 with an important excavation or an expedition for exploration 

 would do much for the training of the men who are to be the leaders 

 of the science in America and who, we hope, will advance the whole 

 science of classical archeology. 



London, September i, igo^. 



