scientific bodies in Europe and America. We give herewith a 

 brief summary of the article which involved considerable historic 

 research. 



According to Greek tradition Academus had a beautiful grove 

 in a suburb of Athens which he devoted to the use of scholars, 

 literature and science, and here Socrates, Plato and Xenophon 

 met and taught the youths of Athens ethical and scientific truths 

 nearly 400 B. C. and the grove became known as "The Academy." 



Coming down to the Augustan age of Rome, Cicero named his 

 garden the Academy and there illustrious people from all parts 

 of the Empire met from time to time. When the Alexandrian 

 Library was founded near the mouth of the Nile, it became the 

 chief scientific center of the early Christian era. 



Alfred the Great established an Academy at Oxford in the 8th 

 century and it became the great University of Oxford. The Sar- 

 acens founded academies of learning in Northern Africa and 

 Spain. Charlemagne established academies in the Franco-Ger- 

 man dominions where he ruled. In the renaissance of Italy sev- 

 eral academies were organized, of which the principal one was 

 the Platonic Academv at Florence. 



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