SECTION B CLASSICAL LITERATURE 



(Hall 3, September 21,3 p. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR ANDREW F. WEST, Princeton University. 

 SPEAKERS : PROFESSOR PAUL SHOREY, University of Chicago. 



PROFESSOR JOHN H. WRIGHT, Harvard University. 

 SECRETARY: PROFESSOR F. G. MOORE, Dartmouth College. 



THE Chairman of the Section of Classical Literature was Professor 

 Andrew F. West, of Princeton University, who in calling the session 

 to order congratulated the large audience present that the great 

 and abiding value of classical literature was recognized amid all the 

 external splendors and distractions of this vast International Ex- 

 position. He then advocated the thesis that it was classical literature, 

 rather than philology or arcrueology, that had the most value for the 

 most persons in the modern world, that this was due to the quality 

 of the ancient literature as Art, not as Science, and that what was 

 most needed in America to make the classics beneficent and effectual 

 was the revival in full power of the Literae Humaniores, the trilogy 

 of ancient literature, history, and philosophy which contains the 

 beginnings and foundation lines of Western thought and expression. 



