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"When the city of Athens passed from Turkish control and was designated as the capital 

 of the new free kingdom of Greece, it was a mere handful of wretched huts clustered about 

 the Acropolis. Today it is a thoroughly modern city, with splendid streets, magnificent 

 public buildings, handsome residences, attractive parks, and most of the modern improvements 

 of which western cities boast. . . . Indeed, had the Greek of today nothing to his credit 

 save the building of the attractive capital of his nation, that alone, it seems to me, would be 

 sufficient to rank him among the constructive agencies of the modern world" (see page 299). 



versity Place, kept reiterating his hatred 

 of the common tongue, all the while using 

 the despised medium in which to dress 



his thought. 



THEORY AND PRACTICE 



The use of these two tongues is a 

 source of much confusion to the visitor 

 in Greece, especially if he has reckoned 

 upon his knowledge of classic Greek to 

 assist him in his travels. He will be able 

 indeed to read the newspapers without 

 much difficulty, but he will be utterly lost 

 in conversation, not only because of the 

 pronunciation, which is vastly different 



from the Erasmian method in which we 

 westerners are schooled, but because the 

 spoken tongue, being demotikc, will have 

 a vastly different vocabulary from that 

 which he has taken from the dictionary. 



For instance, the cultured term for 

 bread is artos, and every bakery in 

 Athens — bakeries and barber shops run 

 a close race for first place in the cities — 

 will carry the sign "Artopoleiori" ; but if 

 one should enter and ask for artos he 

 would probably receive a stony stare, 

 while should he demand psume his wants 

 would be filled. 



Again, the classic and the modern cul- 



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