THE NUNTIUS
NATIONAL JOURNAL of
ETA SIGMA PHI THE NUNTIUS
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETA SIGMA PHI
Volume XII NOVEMBER, 1937 Number 1
Editor-in-Chief and Manager Associate Editors GEORGE W. CURRIE WILLIAM JOHNSON, Lambda Professor of Ancient Languages University of Miss., University, Miss. Birmingham-Southern College GORDON W. COUCHMAN, Epsilon Birmingham, Ala. 513 N. Linn St., Iowa City, Iowa VIRGINIA LEE, Gamma Lindley Hall, Athens, Ohio Assistant CHARLOTTE WALTEMYER, Alpha Pi DORIS MURPHY, Pi 251 Springs Ave., Gettysburg, Pa. 4928 Farrell Ave., Fairfield, Ala. MAURICE CROWLEY, Pi 5229 First Ave., Birmingham, Ala.
National Officers Megas Prytanis Megas Chrysophylax THEODORE C. PANOS, Epsilon CHARLES NAUGLE, Alpha Rho 933 River St., Iowa City, Iowa Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. Megas Protohyparchos ROSEMARY WILLIAMS, Psi Megas Pyloros Megas Deuterohyparchus WILLIAM WOFFORD, Alpha Phi MARY LOU WILLIAMS, Alpha Gamma Megas Epistolographos Executive Secretary FRANCES PROTHEROE, Alpha HAROLD B. DUNKEL, Alpha Megas Grammateus 48 Classics Building MARIE MERRITT, Alpha Delta University of Chicago Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga. Chicago, 111.
Published four times a year, in November, January, March and May, by the national society of Eta Sigma Phi. The office of Publication is at Brmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Ala. Subscription price is $1.00 a year. All payments of subscriptions should be sent directly to the Editor and Manager of THE NUNTIUS. Entered as sec ond-class matter November U, 1937, at the post office at Birmingham, Ala., under the act of Aug. 24, 1912. TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EDITORIALS .!.,...,, : :... 5 MINERVA
• The Detection of Modern Forgeries of Ancient Sculpture • By; Rolland E. Stevens, Alpha Xi 6 •.--•, * ' •'
Athenian After-Dinner Entertainment -1 By Robert J. Bonner, Alpha ;. -.-. 10
THE MUSES * * Translations from Horace " . " * By Holly Waker, Eta; Lawrence Olson, Jr.; J. Hector Currie 13
' On Reading Homer !
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r "' "' 't 't ,. ' - • • • * DIRECTORY .: ." .; " 1, , 18, NOVEMBER, 1937
President's Message for 1937-1938
In this, my initial message to the members of Eta Sigma Phi, let me first express the hope that we shall be able, through our efforts in the ensuing few months, to do both credit and honor to our organization and to the classical field in general. My responsibility as Megas Prytanis is overpowering (and I am not a little apprehen sive as I enter upon my new duties), but that of every other member is equally as imposing, since it is obvious that, whatever I may do, my efforts will certainly come to naught if I have not the as sistance and cooperation of everyone. Perhaps it seems needless and trite to make such a plea for cooperation. But I do so only because I realize, and wish you all to realize, perhaps this year as never before, the true importance of Eta Sigma Phi: that the opportunity of adding our strength and energy as a nationally powerful organization to those of other classical groups throughout the country in the struggle to restore Latin and Greek to their former and rightful position in high school and college curricula is so great that THEODORE C. PA.NOS Megas Prytanis we dare not fail to utilize it. If we do not present a united force to assist these other organizations, especially in the praparatory schools. We are, our work will be of little avail indeed, and we shall therefore, not alone in our battle, since we have prove ourselves unworthy of membership in any many allies and a more or less "common foe," but group composed of true lovers of the classics. we are alone in the sense that we were the first For it is news to no one, of course, that in the to be attacked, are now the most vehemently at estimation of most modern educators, the study tacked, and are in the most precarious position of Latin and Greek has very little, if any, value, of all. In order to safeguard and strengthen especially when compared with the numerous so this position the classical organizations of the cial sciences. The fact that such a study has nation have united to combat this "plebianism of little practical application makes it undesirable, the modern educator,"* "to fight against those in the opinion of these leaders, and they have con who think that only that education is worth while sequently assailed the legitimacy of the inclusion which attempts to fit the individual for his im of the classical languages in any curriculum and mediate physical surrounding."* Into this com demand their expulsion. It is interesting to note, bat will be irresistibly drawn every person who too, that they have not confined their attacks professes a conscientious appreciation of the clas to Latin and Greek, but also question the value sics, and whose esteem for classical scholarship of the modern languages. In fact, it is my under is such that he will not stand passively and watch standing that the latest trend in pedagogics is a it degraded and perhaps destroyed by the superfi drive to abolish even the teaching of English, cial theorizations of a group of book-trained peda- THE NUNTIUS gogues who, in many instances, have not studied discussion of the value of the study of Latin and enough of either Greek or Latin to be qualified Greek, in which students should be called upon, to discuss their value intelligently. or preferably should volunteer to express their We must be as assiduous in our preparation views on this subject and to state what the study for this "combat" (I can think of nothing else of the classics means to them. Such a plan, it to call it) as the seriousness of the situation de seems to me, would certainly stimulate interest mands. The first point to be considered in this in the problem confronting us all, and at the connection is, I think, that of a change in attitude. same time would demonstrate to the student who Let us cease being on the defensive and kowtow may not have spent any thought on it what justi ing to the demands of our materialistically-mind fication there is in studying the classical lan ed antagonists that we produce courses the value guages, and just what the values of such a study of which can be measured in dollars and cents. are. I should appreciate having every chapter As Harry Levin in Irs article, "Portrait of a at least test this arrangement and write me, as Homeric Scholar," in a rather recent journalf soon as possible, advising me of its practicability said: "Professors of the classics have reached a or impracticability, as the case may be. I am point where they spend their time apologizing for extremely anxious that some such plan be de their subject. They are apt to promise those who vised, and any suggestion or criticism from any follow their dwindling courses a unique oppor one interested enough to write would be greatly tunity to undergo a moral discipline, to attain appreciated, and extremely welcome. the marks of caste, or at least assure themselves This, then, comprises a summary account of a comfortable academic career. Milman Parry what I deem to be the most vital issue facing us disdained such inducements himself and refused as a new year in the history of Eta Sigma Phi to offer them to others. The study of Greek, he begins. Perhaps many of you will think that I had found, is its own reward, and he never at have envisaged our situation with altogether too tempted to just'fy it on any but a personal and much seriousness and possibly even with pessi- aesthetic plane." Let us, therefore, make a sec m'sm, all of which may be true. I hope it is true, ondary point of the practical value of studying but in my present position, such are matters as Latin and Greek, although this factor is certainly I am able to perceive them, and I sincerely hope of great importance, and stress rather the cultural that I have managed to transmit to you all some and aesthetic benefits, which are indubitably plen measure of the deep concern we must have, not tiful. In making these po'nts, I advocate neither only for the future of Eta Sigma Phi, but also becoming belligerently or maliciously aggressive for the future of Latin and Greek. nor adopting an air of exceeding aloofness and im Once more may I say that I earnestly hope perturbability, but I definitely think that there is that our work in behalf of Eta Sigma Phi and a certain amount of dignity and reserve which the classical languages will provide us with much should be maintained, and for this reason I re enjoyment and will result in distinctive and com peat : Let us cease being on the defensive. mendable achievement. I should like to make one more suggestion, viz., that at each meeting of every local chapter "Eugene Tarenner in the Editorial for October, 1936, issue of Classical Journal. a short time be devoted to a sort of open forum fClasdcal Journal, February, 1937. NOVEMB ER, 193 7
EDITORIALS
At least I, the editor, feel that I have come to a great test. Although my experiences have been varied, and no MORITURUS TE SALUTO flowery beds of ease nor magic carpet have wafted me through the years and especially through the intricacies of Homer, Lucian, Ennius and Apuleius, Paleography, Textual Criticism, and Philology, this thing of getting people to write something for publication is a bit baffling. Yet I have an inkling that the wings of Pegasus and draughts of the Pierian fountain will com pel a good many to unburden their souls of great thoughts encountered in the inexhaustible quar ries of ancient literature. But to get that news from forty chapters and the prosaic results of elections in the local groups, especially those in which there are not enough members to man the offices and those left are so steeped in the doctrines of Socrates that they will not pad the rolls, is a task equal to that of Sisyphus. But it will be worth while if we can save a little of the salt of the educational world and GEORGE W. CURRIE help inspire a few of you who are to teach The New Editor school, write and edit papers, magazines, and books, and follow certain professions for which a classical knowledge is indispensable, to maintain decreasing in secondary schools. There are many that high regard for Latin and Greek which you different causes for this apparent disinterest, now have, on through life. I never meet one of but the fault can not lie with the high school our alumni who has gone out from Pi chapter student himself. The introduction of new courses who is not still enthusiastic in his expression of such as manual training or the fine arts has such regard. It therefore seems to me to be our taken away much of the emphasis which was for duty to get some of those strayed chapters to re merly placed on the study of Latin. But per new their affiliations and to extend our organi haps the greatest factor in the loss of the clas zation into many other colleges. I have found sics has been the teachers. some departments of classics in teachers' colleges Most of the present teachers in secondary strong in numbers and ideals. Future teachers education are graduates of colleges or universi will have more to do with keeping Latin and ties where there are chapters of Eta Sigma Phi, Greek in the curriculum than anyone else. Why and yet many of these teachers are content to not make an effort to place chapters in such use old-fashioned methods of instruction which colleges ? offer no challenge to a capable student and only cause discouragement. The study and interest in the classics on the Membership and active participation in Eta part of college and university students is evident Sigma Phi should provide the future teacher with from the activity in a solid background in classical fields; for un THE FUTURE OF nearly forty chap- less students are endowed with a sincere feeling ETA SIGMA PHI ters of Eta Sigma of appreciation for ancient Greece and Rome and Phi scattered over their contributions to civilization, the future of the United States. On the other hand, interest classical study in colleges and universities will be in and appreciation of the classics is gradually at stake. THE NUNTIUS
MINERVA
The Detection of Modern Forgeries of Ancient Sculpture
By ROLLAND E. STEPHENS, ALPHA XI The detection of forged art objects is as in which on December 5, 1928, they admitted to be teresting as it is profitable to private collectors a forgery by Dossena.1 But the Metropolitan and museums. Art faking is by no means a new Museum was not the only American institution profession, for the Romans copied many of the to be deceived by the work of this clever Euro Greek statues, as the findings of archeologists pean. In May, 1927, the Cleveland Museum of prove. In fact, these copies constitute a separate Art purchased a statue of Athena for the sum of field of art study. The Roman sculptors imitat $120,000. This statue was also found to be the ed the work of their talented neighbors because work of Dossena. Naturally enough, as soon as they realized its fineness and superiority and be the discoveries were made, the involved muse cause they themselves did not possess the origi ums hastened to vindicate themselves. The Cleve nality necessary to create such beautiful statues land Museum, in reply to the charges made against as those of Greece. But the motives behind the it, asserted that the sculpture had been previ art forgery of today disregard beauty altogether, ously returned to the dealer and the entire price and thus fall on an even lower plane than the had been recovered.2 But this is only a small motives which prompted the artists of Rome to fraction of the amount of money spent on art mimic the creations of their predecessors. The forgeries. Over $1,000,000 was paid by Ameri blame for the baser motives of the present day can collectors and museums for Dossena's sculp rests indirectly but ultimately on the ideals of tures alone. Individual pieces sold for as high modern collectors who are usually willing to pay as $150,000.3 a much larger sum for an ugly and disfigured From this information it is easy to see why piece of work which bears the stamp of antiquity America is considered an easy market for faked than they would pay for a beautiful modern cre antiquities. I am not sure whether it is the be ation which possesses neither the scars of time lief that Americans are more easily duped than nor a famous name to increase its value. Thus European collectors, or the fact that there is many poor and unknown men of talent are tempt more money in America that gives the unscrupu ed to convert their geinus to money by counter lous European dealer a desire to "get the Ameri feiting antiques. It is difficult for an artist to can," but I am inclined to believe that it is both, divorce his name from the masterpieces he has to which perhaps is added an innate disgust at wrought and attribute them to some unknown the uncultured American collector's presuming man of the past, but if he himself is unknown, to know anything about art. Encouraged by past who will buy his work, however beautiful it may successes, some of these dealers are now growing be? bolder day by day. A shop in Florence displays the following advertisement: ". . . Any work imi Many sculptors of high ability have for this tated. Exact reproductions of mutilated Grecian reason used their talent for illigimate purposes or other originals. All work faithfully execut and most of them are able to produce a rather ed."4 Of course, the imitation of ancient art is large number of forgeries in the course of a year. not illegal, provided that the work is sold as an The result is that museums and private collectors imitation. But the advertisement quoted above must be constantly on their guard against de demonstrates the pride which many dealers take ception, for many of these fraudulent pieces are in their ability to obtain faithful reproductions. well done and a few are almost undetectable. A few years ago, the art circles were startled by The study of the art of faking antiquities the discovery that several sculptures in the pos proves to be even more fascinating than the de session of the best museums in the world, here tection of them. Fraud is practised in many va tofore believed to be products of Greek and ried fields of art from the prolific production of Renaissance masters, were forgeries by a con Egyptian scarabs to the scrawling af a famous temporary artist namel Alceo Dossena. The Met signature on a genuine but worthless old paint ropolitan Museum of Art in New York was very ing. However, because of the greater value of deeply involved in the discovery since it had ancient statues, forgers usually imitate Greek or bought an excellent sculpture of a walking maid Renaissance groups in marble or other stone. The en in the Greek archaic- style known as Kore, more careful counterfeiters are content to pro- NOVEMBER, 1937 duce a small object such as a head or a bust, appearance of having been abused through many while the bolder and more talented men work on centuries. Maiming a cleverly wrought piece of a full length statue or even a large monument. work brings sorrow to the heart of the artist, But the artist who attempts the reproduction according to one European sculptor, who says, of ancient art encounters many troubles. For, "... I knock off a nose, or a finger, or leaves of to create art in the spirit of an old master pre a wreath. It is a great trial to artistic work supposes a thorough knowledge of the technique men to be obliged to mutilate their work in this and history of that particular period and the way. We feel awfully disgusted when we have 8 ability to grasp the spirit of that age. The diffi disfigured a statuette." After the chiseling culty of attaining this high qualification causes away process, the newness of the marble is de forgers to fall into two classes. The majority stroyed by washing it in a solution of water and do not attempt to create an original work in the green vitriol. This penetrates deeply and is com manner of an old school, but merely copy some paratively permanent. Nitrate of silver is some extant statue, varying little details to prevent times used to obtain a similar ancient appear detection. A famous example of this type of fak ance. Finishing touches are applied by moderate ing is the head of a fallen warrior, which was so use of encaustic and rubbing with flannel.9 Then successfully copied that it almost escaped detec the entire surface is pitted and all sharp corners tion. The original work is kept at Munich. An smoothed down. Sandblasting has proved to be other head, that of a maiden of the Sappho type, quite successful and is used by most forgers. has been frequently copied with a little change Acid, too, is often applied for the same purpose. in detail. Archaeologists have not definitely decided what method Dossena used, although they believe that The other class of art forgers, much in the he employed the sand and acid methods. To minority, is composed of the most talented men produce the crackle found on old marble he prob in the profession. It is to this class that Alceo ably used fire in some manner. The earth stain Dossena belongs. Miss Richter, of the Metropoli tan Museum, says of him: "He is proud of the on his scultpures goes below the surface and fact that he does not . . . copy a known work of soaking in water does not remove it. This effect art with slight variations, but that he really cre may have been produced by the application of ates in the manner of the antique. What differ some penetrating acid. It is known that he al entiates him, however, from other clever, modern tered the surface of a Roman portrait head of a imitators is that he has the courage to make young girl by baking the marble and then pitting 10 large monumental pieces for which high prices it with a ragged stone. These processes of can be charged."5 His work is divided into two smoothing the corners and pitting the surface parts: the archaic Greek pieces, and those repre do in a few hours the work of winds and rains senting the Renaissance period. Here, I am con through centuries of exposure. The fourth "ag cerned only with his creations in the Greek style. ing" process is more difficult. Statues that have An examination of these pieces would convince lain in the open for many years acquire a thin one that he spent hours studying the known Greek coating of patina, a kind of rust or scale which works of art in their original form. Yet he him makes marble look very ancient. To apply patina self admits that he did not take the trouble to artificially is a real test of the artist's skill. Ev look at the originals but relied entirely on photo ery successful forger has his own secret recipe graphs.1 for producing this crust. The best results are obtained by treatment with acid, with solutions Usually, the art faker works with original of silver nitrate or of green vitriol, and some stone, such as marble, and treats the surface to times by burying or baking.11 One forger re give the appearance of age. However, in the fol vealed that he obtained patina on marble by burn lowing incident, the forger disguised the very 12 ing damp straw beneath it. When this process substance of his work. Recently, an "Aztec fu has been completed, the sculpture gives the ap nerary vase" in the possession of the British Mu pearance of being hundreds of years old and if seum, apparently stone, began to flake off at the skillfully done will successfully pass the scrutiny bottom. Examination under a microscope re of all but the most careful and best informed vealed that a clever faker had built up a value scientists and connoisseurs. less original fragment with a mixture of sand and glue, giving an excellent imitation of sand However, as new discoveries are ever being stone.7 The more usual method of the forger is made in the realm of science, and as these dis to carve the statue from marble or other stone and coveries are applied to the realm of art, decep then to chisel parts of it away so that it has the tion becomes more and more difficult. Formerly THE NUNTIUS an art fraud needed only to look genuine. It requires a thorough knowledge of the style and had to be correct in form and style and had to technique of various schools, acquired only have a deceiving surface, but since the examina through years of study and observation. To as tion of the connoisseur went no further than the sist collectors in the study of Greek art as a outside of the fake, the cleverly rendered piece preventive measure against forgeries, the Metro usually eluded detection. But the ever widening politan Museum in New York has made a special circle of scientific knowledge has finally entered collection in their Classical Study Room. This the world of art. Chemists and geologists, for room consists of two sections: one, a collection instance, know the effect of air on stone which of genuine pieces clearly illustrating the technical has been exposed for a great many years: they side of Greek sculpture, objects chosen not for have discovered in their work that during cen their particular beauty or artistic value, but be turies of erosion of a marble statue by air and cause they bear plainly the marks of the tools rain, a little sulphate is deposited, extending sev which their sculptors used, or because they show eral inches below the surface. A large amount the ancient method of joining the pieces of the of carbonic acid is also present. Therefore, by statue together. The other section of the Clas drilling into a marble monument or statue in the sical Study Room displays forgeries of Greek art. back or some inconspicuous place, a modern for It, is the belief of the museum officials that by gery could be detected by an absence of these studying the technique of Greek sculpture, one products of age. can more easily detect frauds. Indeed, an exami With the discovery of the ultra-violet ray nation of the collection kept in this room reveals and its uses, a more efficient metjiod of exami some interesting and helpful facts to the connois nation has been found. Mr. James J. Rorimer seur. From distinguishing marks found on the has carried on painstaking but successful research genuine busts it was learned that the Greek ar work in the use of ultra-violet rays for detection tists used pointed and dentated chisels and run of art fakes. He has found the effect of the rays ning drills in producing their work. The absence on paintings, bronzes, alabaster, and jewels, as of such marks on a work of doubtful origin well as on marbles, and has explained the signifi immediately arouses suspicion about its validity. cance of his discoveries in each case. Here, how It was also discovered that the Greeks joined ever, I am. concerned only with those discoveries the hands, arms, feet, and legs to the torso by that apply to marble. Exposing genuine old means of dowel joints. However, a forger could pieces and freshly cut blocks to the ultra-violet easily produce tool marks similar to those on the rays, Rorimer found that the freshly cut marble genuine sculptures by using the same kinds of appeared a uniforni purple while the ancient tools. Similarly, he could easily duplicate the statues were mottled white.13 This knowledge has Greek method of joining.15 But he can never, no since been used for examining marbles of doubtfid matter how clever he may be, perfectly imitate origin and has in a few instances made possible the Greek style. the detection of cleverly executed frauds. In one case, a Roman portrait head was immediately The great success of Dossena and certain condemned when shown under the rays. Later, other forgers is due to their ability to absorb it was found to be a forgery by Dossena. The the spirit of the period which they are imitating, examination even went beyond the assertion that but it is impossible even for a Dossena to forget it was fraud. The head was composed of three entirely his twentieth century ideas and ideals. broken parts which had been assembled by the Therefore, the connoisseur relies on seemingly forger, and it was thought by some that one of small and unimportant mistakes caused by the the pieces was original and the other two supplied modern outlook of the faker to betray him. A by the counterfeiter. The ultra-violet light proved comparatively common error of this kind is due conclusively that all three portions were freshly to the unfamiliarity of the modern forger with cut.14 The x-ray, though it may reveal carefully Greek dress. The Greek chiton, which is merely mended fractures in sculpture or pottery, is sel a rectangular cloth, folded in the middle, was dom used to test statues. Its principle value in wrapped around the wearer and fastened; at the the realm of art is in the examination of paint shoulders with brooches. Yet, though the chiton ings. was of simple pattern, the modern faker some- t;mes makes a mistake in rendering it. The Totally different from scientific methods is chiton, being a loose garment, hung in deep folds another branch of art verification, known as con- from the shoulders of the wearer. The Greek noisseurship, or the detection of forgeries by- sculptor knew how to give drapery a real beauty. faults in form and manner. To be a connoisseur No two folds were made to run in quite the NOVEMB ER, 193 7 same direction, nor were they uniform in size. entific methods than Rorimer. He declares that It can be seen plainly where each fold begins and no collector need be victimized by frauds if he is where it ends, and the whole drape or chiton is willing to submit his contemplated purchase to done in bold lifelike sweeps. Greek drapery is al the scrutiny of modern science.21 However, a most impossible to imitate closely. The drapery collector is often unwilling to submit his collec work on forgeries is usually hesitating, not true tions to a scientific examination lest his judg to life and flabby.16 In at least one instance, an ment be proved faulty. When he has been duped, error due to the lack of knowledge about Greek he prefers to keep the fact a secret, fearing he armor caused the detection of a fraud. At the may lose standing as an art connoisseur if the Metropolitan Museum is a head of a fallen war deception becomes known. rior copied from the original at Munich. The helmet on the original has a cheek piece turned Advocates of connoisseurship reply to the down against the warrior's face and broken off, boasts of science by recalling the Dossena scandal. so that the remaining piece is about two inches For world-famous archeologists, chemists, and long. The forger mistook the broken cheekpiece mineralogists had already declared the disputed for adornment and added a similar appendage works genuine, when connoisseurs discovered just above it.17 Some of the mistakes which for them. Miss Richter reasserts the superiority of gers make when copying a Greek piece are rather her methods over scientific tests, saying: "In amusing. Copies of a Greek head of the Sappho the last analysis it must always be quality and type have become rather common in antique mar style that serve as infallible guides ... It is kets. The original, believed to be from a school quality that cannot be successfully imitated by of the fifth century B. C, has a ribbon around even a gifted forger. This is especially the case where Greek works of a good period are attempt the hair. In the forgeries the ribbon becomes a 22 Renaissance cap on the back of the head, while ed." Yet forgeries are continually being dis in front it is decorated with a Renaissance orna covered which have eluded detection by connois ment.18 seurs. On the other hand, clever fakers will no doubt devise some means of fooling science, as Even when a forger has successfully ren they have done in the past. The cooperation of dered the Greek drapery and has guarded against the two quarreling branches of examiners, how minor errors, his modern mind betrays him when ever, would at least greatly diminish the number he attempts to reproduce the face in true Greek of counterfeit pieces bought by collectors and mu style. A connoisseur can almost immediately de seums. For then, each purchase should have to tect a forgery by the expression of the face. The pass the dual test of science and connoisseurship. modern touch can be seen plainly in a forgery of a Greek stele now at Berlin. The figures have FOOTNOTES 1. "Dossena 'Greek' Figure in the Metropolitan," Art News Magazine (Decem an insipid expression and lack the' original pathos ber 8, 1928), p. 1. 19 and aloofness. It is a common mistake of for 2. Frederic A, Whiting, "Dossena's Sculptures," Art News Magazine (April gers, in imitating the Greek aloofness to make 13, 1929). their figures stiff, lifeless and simple. Thus as 3. "Dossena 'Greek' Figure in the Metropolitan." 4. "Sidelights on Fake Art and Art Fakers," Arts and Decorations (October, we consider the various methods of connoisseurs 1923), p. 18. to uncover art frauds, deception seems to be im 5. Gisela M. Richter, "Dossena, His Works and His Lesson," Art News Maga zine (February 2, 1929), p. J. possible. 6. "Art Fakes Exposed," Literary Digest (December 22, 1928), p. 18. 7. Jacob Deschin, "On the Trail of the Art Faker," i'opular ivtecfjanics Maga Museum curators maintain that it is impossi zine (July, 1932), pp. 103-104. 8. Robert Munro, Arcbaelogy and False Antiquities (London: Methuen & Co.; ble for a counterfeit piece of work, however clever 1922), p. 277. it may be, to pass successfully the eye of an ex 9. Riccardo Nobili, Gentle Art of Faking (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.; 1922), p. 242. perienced connoisseur. Yet the scientific world, 10. "Ultra-Violet Rays Tell Statue's Age," Literary Digest (September 28, 1929), eager for laurels itself, points out instances in p. 3i. 11. James J. Rorimer, Ultra-Violet Rays and Their Use in the Examination of which fogeries were bought by the finest art Works of Art (New York: Metropolitan Musenm of Art; 1931), p. 17. institutes without arousing the slightest suspi 12. Munro, op. cit., p. 277. cion, and then in turn asserts that only scientific 13. Rorimer, op. cit., p. 19. methods are infallible. Mr. Rorimer, telling of 14. "Ultra-Violet Rays Tell Statue's Age." 15. Gisela M. Richter, "A New Classical Study Room," Bulletin of the Metro his work with ultra-violet rays, concludes: ". . . politan Museum of Art (May, 1929), p. 141. 16. Gisela M. Richter, Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks (New Haven: the experiments conducted have been sufficiently Yale University Press; 1929), p. 138. numerous and definite to warrant the statements 17. Ibid. made. In the case of marbles, the recognition 18. Ibid. 20 19. Ibid., p. 143. of forgeries . . . has been possible." Mr. Deschin 20. Rorimer, op. cit., p. 23. is even more optimistic about the success of sci 21. Deschin, op. cit., p. 103. 22. Richter, "Dossena, His Works and His Lesson." 10 THE NUNTIUS
Athenian After-Dinner Entertainment
By ROBT. J. BONNER, ALPHA The Athenians were a very sociable people, cient and modern, from Plato's Symposium to that is to say, the men were. Banquets were a The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. popular form of entertainment. The ordinary To illustrate the main features of Athenian banquet provided by the host for his invited after-dinner entertainment I'll quote some pas guests was called deipnon. Eranos, which means sages from Xenophon's less pretentious Sympo anything from a joint stock company to a sium in translation, or near translation. Love is club picnic, was the kind of feast to which the the main topic of Plato's work. It is touched guests brought their own food and the host sup upon also in Xenophon's. In fact, the Greeks plied the ice-water, serviettes, and toothpicks. often talked about love; it is still with us. Time Aristophanes, the great comic poet of Athens, forbids me to dwell on this interesting subject. has preserved the menu of a public banquet, fur But that I may not disappoint the young men, nished by the Athenian ladies, in the comedy I'll give you the conclusion of the whole matter called The Parliament of Women,1 in one word. from Gorgias' Defense of Helen, chapter 19: It is IIV2 inches long and contains 89 syllables If love is a bodily debility and a mental and 169 letters. It is metrical and ought to be imbecility, we should not, execrate it as an sung. The time record is, I believe, 26 seconds. error but should deprecate it as a terror. For it comes to its victims by the behests of chance and not by the requests of sense, and XcrtiSo-/ Tt/ta'y.w/ff'e.Xo.y.u) -/yaX^o-/ K/°aVio - by the contrivance of heart and not by the connivance of art. )iti tp ave -/ £/* I'M v ifo — / Tftt u^aTo- /
busband killed my father-in-law; my brother-in- There is a thing on earth two-footed and law killed my father-in-law and my father-in- four-footed and three-footed, whose name is one, law my father. and it changes its nature alone of all creatures Answer: Andromache. Achilles, father of that move creeping on earth or in the air and sea. her second husband, Pyrrhus, killed Hector, Pyr- But when it moves supported by most feet the rhus killed Priam, Paris killed Achilles, and swiftness of its legs is at its weakest. Achilles killed her father Eetion. Answer: Man. One wind, two ships, ten sailors rowing, and There is one father and twelve children. one steersman directs both. Each of these has twice thirty children of differ Answer: The double flute. ent aspect. Some of them we see to be white and I am a part of a human being. Iron cuts me. the others black, and though immortal they all If you take away one letter the sun sets. perish. Answer: Onux. Answer: The year, months, days, and nights.
THE MUSES SPRING OF LIFE "CARPE DIEM" Cruel winter has relaxed once more Leuconoe, do not seek To open wide spring's welcome door, Those answers which the stars may show: And now dry keels of ships are drawn Whatever fates the gods may wreak And cattle from their stables gone. Are not for thee and me to know. Now dancers of sweet Venus soon will skip Will skip beneath the silvery moon Is it not better to endure While Vulcan kindles up the forge This winter's surges flying fast Of Cyclops in a darkened gorge. And breaking on the Tyrrhene shore: Now it's time to wreathe your head Who knows but it may be the last? With blossoms from a flowery bed. To Faunus offer up due rite Come then, in wisdom strain the wine. Within the darkness of the night, We have no space of years to mope For pale Death knocks at every door On thy mortality, and mine: At tow'rs of rich and huts of poor. We have no time to waste with hope. The end of life's brief span is night When death will close in with a sigh. See, as we speak our moments flee— The Manes of fable spin for you, Then out on speaking, seize this day! And snip the thread of life in two. Tomorrow will, or will not, be— All, Pluto's cheerless home shall see, We may not know, we cannot say. And when they're called must ready be. —J. Hector Currie. Horace, Odes I. 4. "AD PUERUM MINISTRUM" Submitted by Holly Waker, Eta Chapter. 0 youth, I loathe the Persians, their magnificent ON READING HOMER array, When the great founder of bucolic song, The linden crowns they fashion in a fanciful Theocritus, first tuned the rural lyre, display; He won preeminence that lasted long, Go and pluck the last white rose that blushes by Yet Vergil's "Eclogues" breathed a purer fire; the bay; Hesiod, when he wrote the "Works and Days" Pluck the last red rose that lingers, while the rest (Didactic poem of immortal name!), have blown away. Received a halo of unclouded praise — Unclouded, till the greater "Georgics" came. Leave the simple myrtle twining idly here and Theocritus and Hesiod were past, there And, having left behind him both of these, As you wait upon me, have no sorrow, have no Th' illustrious Latin, loyal to the last, care. Followed in footsteps of Maeonides: Leave me wine and singing, garlands rambling When Vergil in his highest flight did soar, through my hair; E'en he excelled not One who went before. What care I for rich adornments; What care I By Joseph H. Varner, Jr. for pleasures rare? (Alpha Upsilon) —Lawrence Olson, Jr. 14 THE NUNTIUS
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Honor in scholarship at the last ing with Roman life and Roman to and of the Y. W. C. A. Cabinet. Al commencement doubtless came to many pography; Isabel McCain (president though Laura Coit, the president of members of Eta Sigma Phi. The edi of the Y. M. C. A., 1936-37), who at the student body this year, was eligi tor remembers with what pride that tended the Progressive Demonstration ble for membership in Eta Sigma Phi, inimitably great scholar of the Clas School at Emory University, and took and was invited to join, she was sics, Dr. H. W. Johnston, of Indiana a business course at Crichton's Busi forced to decline because of the ex University, was observing back in ness College this summer, is now both tremely large number of extra-cur 1909 that of the very few being grad the director of religious education and ricular "points" which she was al uated summa cum laude or magna the assistant to the pastor in the ready carrying. cum laude, five were Latin majors. Purity Presbyterian Church in Ches In addition to having these connec Indirectly we are informed that Mr. ter, South Carolina; Laura Steele (ed tions with other extra-curricular ac E. Clarendon Hyde, national treas itor of the Agonistic, the campus week tivities on the campus, the present urer last year, attained the distinc ly, 1936-37), after studying at Emory chapter is remarkably well represent tion of membership in Phi Beta Kap University during the summer, is ed in the field of scholastic attain pa. Let everybody report the news. now attending Crichton Business Col ment. Seven of the thirteen present Let's make a count of our members lege in Atlanta; Mary Jane Tigert members are honor-roll students. Ev who were given that honor. (vice-president of the student body, elyn Baty, during her freshman year, 1936-37), is at her home in Gaines held the $700 scholarship which is ville, Fla., waiting for her twenty- awarded each year to a high school NEWS FROM ALPHA DELTA CHAP first birthday, after which she will senior on the basis of competitive ex TER, AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE enroll for graduate work at the Uni aminations, and Eva Ann Perkle, who By Mildred Davis versity of Florida, in Gainesville; and was initiated this fall, received the Five of the Eta Sigma Phi mem three are teaching school — Rachel Rich's prize for the highest record in bers of the class of 1937 were elected Kennedy in South Carolina, Mary the freshman class last year. to Phi Beta Kappa: Frances Cary Jane King in Dalton, Ga., and Enid In spite of their diversified activi (president of the chapter, 1936-37), Middleton in Maben, Alabama. ties, however, one quality which all of June Matthews, Enid Middleton, Isa Just as the alumnae listed above the members of the 1936-37 chapter bel McCain and Kathryn Bowen Wall. had broad interests and widely varied have in common—viz., a keen interest As Eta Sigma Phi alumnae-of-four- activities on the campus, so this year's in the Classics—unites them in a live months, Frances Cary traveled exten chapter consists of participants in ly enthusiasm for the work of Eta sively, this summer, in Europe and in every phase of college life. Zoe Wells, Sigma Phi during the coming year. the western part of the United States; (he president of the day students; Alice Hannah (president of the stu Elsie Blackstone, the vice-president, OMICRON CHAPTER dent body, 1936-37), acted during the is also president of Spanish Club; the University of Pennsylvania summer as counselor at a girls' camp recording secretary, Nell Allison, is By Richard W. Carr and is now in the Assembly Training associate editor of the Literary Quar Prof. J. C. Rolfe, the distinguished School in Richmond; Sarah Johnson, terly; both Marie Merritt, the treas Classical scholar, has retired. new secretary to the pastor in the urer of Eta Sigma Phi, and Evelyn Prof. W. B. McDaniel has with First Baptist Church in Atlanta, trav Baty, a new member, are prominent drawn from active duty to the regret eled in Europe and the Holy Land, in journalistic activities; Mary Prim of his many friends. where she really appreciated for the rose Noble, another new member, and The classes in Latin show a marked first time, she says, her Classical stud Mildred Davis, the corresponding sec improvement in number this year, an ies in college, especially the ones deal retary, are members of Mortar Board increase of approximately 40 per cent.
RES GERENDAE For the convenience of all, the the eight numbers of THE NUNTIUS seems that the common practice is to box herein will be run through all the called for by the initial subscription report so many initiates, giving their issues of THE NUNTIUS this year. If have in many cases not been received. names and stating that the address our organization is to prosper, the More than likely many copies sent to will be sent when obtained. Other du business of the society must be looked new members without a street or dor ties or postponed meetings prevent after meticulously. If a new member mitory address have found a final good intentions from being fulfilled. is initiated, his 'subscription to the resting place in some waste basket. The definite address never reaches the journal of the society should begin As second-class mail cannot be for editor. In such cases the chapters at once. It seems from the number warded, each member should inform will be furnished with the requisite of complaints reaching our office that the editor whenever he changes ad number and will have to deliver them fractions of a year have not been dresses until he has received the full to the individual members. Surely it counted or have been counted as a eight numbers. is a shame for such an issue as that whole year, in some cases, so that all The editor is not omniscient. It of last May, which could hardly be put NOVEMBER, 1937 15
who cares does not take the lead? We vention is an experience that has given PAYMENTS DUE NATIONAL must see outside our own walls if some that have come under my own FRATERNITY we are to gain the greatest inspira observation an undying enthusiasm I. To the national treasurer, Char tion. Attendance upon a national con for the cause of the Classics. les Naugle, Muhlenberg Col lege, Allentown, Pa. $ .50 initiation fee for each new initiate. $1.00 national dues for the school LARES and PENATES year from each active mem ber. ALPHA PSI CHAPTER scholastic standards set for initiation Note—(1) Members initiated after By Marion J. Spence into Eta Sigma Phi, and Miss Bishop April 1 do not pay dues for that M. D. Brewer, Alpha Psi '37, is read several letters from other chap school year. (2) Honorary and now the alumni secretary at Washing ters telling us what their scholastic associate members do not pay na ton and Jefferson College. standards are. The club voted to keep tional dues. K. D. Strickler, president of Alpha its present standards, at least until II. To the editor and manager of Psi '37, is now studying law at the the second semester, when other ac THE NUNTIUS, Prof. George University of Pennsylvania Law tion may be taken. Two new names Currie, Birmingham - South School. were offered as candidates for initia ern College, Birmingham, Ala. E. V. Sciamanna, Alpha Psi '37, has tion : Prof. A. B. Hatch, Jr., and Miss $2.00 for a two year subscription entered the Harvard University Law Harriett Jackson, both new members to THE NUNTIUS from each School. of the Latin Department. new initiate. J. A. McAllister, Alpha Psi '37, has During the social hour, Miss Way $1.00 for a one year subscription been granted a fellowship in English dispensed delicious refreshments, and from every active member at Washington and Jefferson College. the club adjourned after a very pleas whose two year subscription G. Conner, Alpha Psi '37, and Paul ant evening. has expired. A. Tidball, Jr., secretary and treas Note.—Honorary and associate urer of Alpha Psi '37, have gone to ALPHA PSI CHAPTER members, and alumni are urged the Louisville Presbyterian Theolog to subscribe. Washington and Jefferson College ical Seminary. By Marion J. Spence The Alpha Psi Chapter was in in the hands of the subscriber for ALPHA PHI CHAPTER stalled at Washington and Jefferson what he paid for it, to find its way to Millsaps College College, May 14, 1937, by Dr. Robert Hill, and five members of the Gam the waste basket. By M. F. Adams On May 25 of last year, i. e., the ma Chapter of Ohio University. The Sustained Effort last scholastic year, we received into following members were initiated: M. Enthusiasm at a new thing is com the chapter six new members. That D. Brewer, W. N. Clarke, G. Conner, mon. On the other hand, going the swelled the number to twenty-two. B. Danzer, M. Hopkins, P. W. John second mile is the test of worth. Al However, of that number only ten ston, W. Langfitt, W. T. Lowe, J. A. though the response to our request students are back in school. Our fac McAllister, J. McGugin, R. V. Mead, for material was almost one hundred ulty members number seven, so "we D. Morris, E. V. Sciammanna, M. J. per cent from the chapters, a few and are seven"teen. Spence, K. D. Strickler, W. D. Sut more especially the older chapters All of us are looking forward to an ton, L. M. Swartz, A. P. Tidball, Jr., neglected. In some cases the direc active and beneficial year, in spite of C. G. White, tory will contain the names of last the late start in work. I hope that The following honorary members year. Evidently new officers have I may fill the office of Prytanis as were initiated: Dr. J. P. Pritchard, not yet been elected. Pi chapter has well as Ellis Finger did last year. Dr. R. W. Nyswaner, of Washington always held its elections in the spring You may be interested to learn that and Jefferson College, and Dr. J. so that responsibility for an early the lady whom we all knew as Miss Stinchcomb of the University of Pitts start in the fall is anticipated. Oth Magnolia Simpson was married dur burgh. erwise the president of the chapter ing the summer to Mr. Armand Cou- The first annual banquet was held may have graduated or dropped out lette, professor of violin, and the new after the installation service. Fol of school without realizing that the band leader at Millsaps. Mrs. Cou- lowing the banquet, Dr. Stinchcomb perpetuation of the chapter is endan lette is continuing to teach Latin in presented one of the early Greek Trag gered. This may be the reason for the college. edies with the aid of twelve students the fact that a few chapters have been who played the part of the chorus. inactive. LAMBDA CHAPTER The play was performed well, and However, some large universities University of Mississippi it was greatly enjoyed by those who can have so strong a classical club By Margaret Murphey were present. that they feel no need of national re Our chapter held its first meeting lation or rather feel that such rela of the year on Thursday night, Octo ALPHA XI CHAPTER tion is a frill that can be dispensed ber 7, at the apartment of Miss Ev Washington University with. Suppose the large states of the elyn Way, head of the University Lat By Vera Anne Smith Union should take such an attitude, in Department. Miss Vassar Bishop, The first meeting of Alpha Xi how long would we continue to be a Prytanis, presided. The meeting was chapter, held on Tuesday, October 5, strong nation? What will become of purely a business one. The club dis was a business meeting to organize the case for the Classics if somebody cussed the question of changing the plans for the coming year. 16 THE NUNTIUS
However, there has been nothing in this scholarsip is offered by the col UPSILON CHAPTER the Nuntius about our spring ban lege and gives tuition for the next Mississippi State College for Women quet which was held on Friday eve session to the student, in any class A special meeting of Upsilon chap ning, May 21, with about 45 guests below senior, who attains the highest ter was held on Oct. 6 for the purpose attending. The guest speaker was general proficiency. In order to com of initiating new members. After Prof. Harry W. Jones of the Law pete for this scholarship, the student the initiation ceremonies, the members School at Washington University. He must pursue a regular course. discussed plans for the coming year spoke on the teaching of the classics and chose Roman archeology as a at Oxford, where he went as a Rhodes ALPHA PI CHAPTER topic of study. On Oct. 18, at the scholar. A gift, a travelling camera, Gettysburg College first monthly meeting, the members was presented to Miss Josephine Har By Charlotte Waltemyer were transported in imagination to ris, an alumna of our chapter, who The first meeting of the Alpha Pi modern Rome and enjoyed the tour of won the scholarship to the American chapter was held October 14, at which the seven hills with the aid of pictures School at Athens. Prizes were also time twelve new members were ini and maps. presented to the three students who tiated. won the Latin contest which this chap ter conducted in our high school ex At this meeting, a tentative plan for ALPHA GAMMA CHAPTER pansion program. the year was announced. Some of the Southern Methodist University subjects will be: How Other Chapters By Reba Abicht Work; Augustus Caesar, the Celebra At our meeting recently we plan ALPHA ZETA CHAPTER tion of the Bi-millenium of his Birth; ned some interesting events for this Washington Square College Classical Journals and Periodicals; year, including a tea to be given No By Madolin Woods Wang Archeology—the Agora excavations; vember 14 at the home of Dr. J. S. We are at present translating the and New Manuscripts of the Bible. Mcintosh, who is head of the Greek Dulcitius Hrotsvithae. Whether our Plans are also being made for a ban and Latin department, honoring the translation will be formal or an at quet which will be held next spring. students of the Classics department, tempt at burlesque we have not de and the new pledges of Eta Sigma cided. We may do both. Phi. At our next regular meeting, OMICRON CHAPTER which will be held Nov. 2, Miss Alma We have been invited by the Clas University of Pennsylvania sics Club of New York University Gene Revis, an alumna of Eta Sigma By Richard W. Carr Phi, will tell about her travels in Heights to atttend a social some time We are planning six meetings as in November, and we have csked them Europe this summer, including visits usual during the coming school year, to Rome. to help us revel during the Saturnalia. with notable speakers, dinners, and a At this time we are planning to take play. Our chapter is seeking to obtain advantage of the license of the sea closer contact with the Latin teachers son to stage our translation of Dul of the city, thus arousing more inter citius. ALPHA OMEGA CHAPTER est on the part of high school students University of Louisiana in the Classics. To do this, we are By Lois Green inviting a high school teacher to ALPHA UPSILON CHAPTER Due to unexpected circumstances, speak at one of our regular meetings Wooster College we have postponed the installation of this semester. I believe our project By Margaret Koons the local chapter of Eta Sigma Phi of last year was reported, that is, In the current issue of the Classical for several weeks. November 6 seems our chapter presented medals to the Journal, there is a write-up of the to be the best date. At this time, how high school student in each high performance of a Roman comedy in ever, that is not definite. We are school in Dallas who had the highest translation on our campus last spring. working and looking forward to that average in Latin for the four years. We expect to have an active year. day that shall surely come. I am sure Ruth Leinbach and Gertrude Harper We are looking forward eagerly, that we will be ready to contribute received these medals in 1935 when as always, to the appearance of the to the next edition of our magazine. they graduated from high school, and next issue of the Nuntius. they are now active members of Eta NU CHAPTER Sigma Phi. ALPHA DELTA CHAPTER Morningside University Mrs. Frederick Smith is the spon Agnes Scott College By Anita Hoofke sor for our chapter and is rendering By Miss Narka Nelson Our program for the year will cen most valuable assistance. I am sending you herewith a news ter mainly on the periodical, "The item concerning Miss Mildred Davis. Classical Journal." We shall meet the As she is the corresponding secretary first Thursday of every month. ALPHA DELTA CHAPTER for our chapter of Eta Sigma Phi Agnes Scott College (Alpha Delta), modesty does not per ALPHA DELTA CHAPTER By Mildred Davis mit her to send this item herself, but Agnes Scott Colege The Alpha Delta chapter's program I am sure it will interest you. Miss By Marie Merritt of activities, which promises this year Davis, now a senior and a Latin ma We have just initiated five new to be unusually varied and interest jor, is holding for the second succes members and are expecting some more ing, got off to a fine start with the sive year the Collegiate Scholarship. at the end of this quarter. At our initiation on Tuesday, October 19, of This scholarship was awarded to her next meeting, we are going to enter five enthusiastic new members. by vote of the faculty at the end of tain the freshmen who are taking Lat Although besides the initiation and her sophomore year and again at the in and Greek this year, and very in a slight alteration in the constitution, end of her junior year for the ensu teresting plans are being made for the chapter has not had time to trans ing year. According to the catalogue, this party. act any business or to present any NOVEMB ER, 193 7 17 real entertainment, the faculty spon ALPHA CHI CHAPTER launched upon what promises to be a sor, Miss Narka Nelson, and the offic University of Tulane highly scccesful year. ers have begun arrangements for the By Marianna Scott During the short business session, awarding of Eta Sigma Phi medals plans were discussed for the presen in the local high schools, have planned On October 16, 1937, the Alpha Chi tation of medals to the outstanding the presentation of a short skit, "Py- chapter began its new season with Latin students of the various high ramus and Thisbe," before the fresh the best of omens—a delightfully de schools of the city. men Classical students and have con licious and highly successful luncheon given in the heart of the Vieux Carre The speaker of the evening, Dr. sidered the possibility of having a Edwin Lee Johnson, chose as his sub banquet at some time during the year. with the samovar of the late Czar of Russia in the place of honor. Dr. ject, "Mistranslations," and copiously- May Allen, who served as toastmis- illustrated his talk by examples glean PI CHAPTER tress, chose as her subject the "haec ed from his experience as a teacher Birmingham-Southern College studia." of Cicero. Toasts were made of the Classics. With full respect for At the October meeting of the chap by Miss Mary Pearce, who gave a the many instructive and enjoyable ter, Dr. E. Q. Hawk, professor of Eco clever parody of Antony's funeral ora lectures which have been listened to nomics of the college, spoke on the tion from Julius Caesar; by Miss Mer by the present generation of the Psi "New Deal in Ancient Times." As cedes Vulliet, Miss Mathilde Richarea, Chapter, it was generally agreed that Dr. Hawk took his A.M. degree in and Miss May Allen, and Miss Lucille "Mistranslations" was the most en the Classics, he is much interested in Artigues, who recited an original tertaining one it had been our good our department and promises a sum limerick: fortune to hear. mary of the subject for the Nuntius. Four years ago when my youth was After Dr. Johnson's lecture, cross The chapter plans to have some spe in flower, word puzzles, prepared to be solved in cial meetings besides the regular I struggled through Vergil at 25 Latin, were distributed and the next monthly meetings at which various lines per hour, half hour was spent with pencils and professors whose subjects are closely And now though I'm senior pads. Bernard Breyer carried off related to Latin and Greek will be My lot is not lenior first honors. invited to speak. Each member will And I'm still in Ole Debbil Latin's also be required to prepare a paper power. GAMMA CHAPTER on some topic relating to the ancient Following the luncheon, four new world. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio members were initiated: Dr. Russel By Virginia Lee Geer, as an honorary member, Miss We hope to organize, or rather re Gamma Chapter is anticipating a Mary Pearce, Miss Helen Powell, and organize, a Classical group of the pleasant and promising year with a Miss Marianna Scott. county and city teachers and offer total of twenty-five active members prizes for the best work done by a The first meeting was then held, at of the organization. The chapter is pupil in some tangible project relat which the subject of the year was de pleased to announce the addition of a ing to Latin. cided upon—namely, the reign of Au new honorary member to its group, gustus. Miss Amelia Plant was named Professor H. R. Jolliffe, who has chairman of the program committee. joined the faculty of Ohio University ALPHA TAU CHAPTER Dr. Geer was asked to speak at the Ohio State University as assistant professor of classical next meeting. Dr. Allen announced languages. Professor Jolliffe holds Alpha Tau chapter opened their ac that members should attend the meet tivities for the year by a business the Ph.D. degree from the University ings of the convention of the South of Chicago. meeting on October 19. During the ern Section of the Classical Associa meeting we discussed the plans for tion of the Middle West and South, Opening the year's activities, the our remaining meetings of the quar which is to be held in New Orleans. members of Gamma chapter enter ter: A combination social and business tained the members of Classical Club meeting in November and a dinner in and freshmen interested in the clas December. We also made plans for DELTA CHAPTER sics with a picnic September 30. There the National Convention, which is to Franklin College, Franklin, Ind. were about sixty in attendance. The be held here at Columbus next spring. By Elsie Giddings picnic was held in place of the usual After the meeting was adjourned we Delta chapter held its first meeting more formal Open House for welcom talked in informal groups and sang of the year October 13, at the home ing freshmen classical students. This Latin songs. of Mrs. P. L. Powell, an honorary substitution was found highly success member of Eta Sigma Phi. Installa ful. ETA CHAPTER tion services for the new officers were The first regular meeting of the Florida State College for Women conducted by Elsie Giddings, retiring chapter was held at the home of Mr. ' By Marcia Smith president. and Mrs. V. D. Hill, October 20. The At present, Eta chapter has only The program for the ensuing year business of the meeting was the ini one active member, but several have was submitted. It will be based upon tiation of Professor H. R. Jolliffe as been pledged recently. As soon as Classical mythology. Jean Halliday an honorary member of the organiza they have been initiated we shall hold concluded the meeting with an inter tion. Dean T. C. McCracken, Dean of an election for the remaining officers esting report on the myths of creation. the College of Education, spoke in and will let you know their names and formally concerning his trip abroad addresses immediately. I will also PSI CHAPTER during the summer, emphasizing mat keep in mind the other information Vanderbilt University ters of classical interest. His speech, which you asked for and have the of With a joint business and social both entertaining and instructive, was ficers send in the various reports. meeting on October 8, Psi chapter thoroughly enjoyed by the members. 18 THE NUNTIUS
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DELTA—Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana PSI^Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Prytanis: Martha Ellen Rhodes, Shelbyville, Ind Prytanis: Rosemary Williams, 2709 Brightwood Ave. Hyparchos: Jean Halliday, 19 N. Forsythe Street Protohyparchos: Ovid Collins, Jr., 1213 Greenfield Grammateus: Elsie Giddings, R. R. 1-A. Avenue. Chrysophylax: John Spencer, 926 E. Jefferson St. Epistolographos: Charlotte Williams, 209 24th Ave., South. Grammateus: Mary Louise Beardin, Jackson Blvd LAMBDA—University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi Chrysophylax: Alfred Levingston, Ruleville, Miss. Prytanis: Miss Vassar Bishop. Hyparchos: Mr. Lawrence Olsen. ALPHA BETA—University of Denver, Denver, Colo. Epistolographos: Margaret Murphey. Prytanis: Maurice Ervin, 350 Washington. Grammateus: Mrs. Isabelle Coleman. Hyparchos: Katherine Trueheart, 495 So. York. Chrysophylax: Mr. William Johnson. Grammateus-Chrysophylax: Gus Profit, 2050 So. Pyloros: Mr. David Hamilton. Gaylord.
NU—Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa ALPHA GAMMA—Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, Texas Prytanis: Barbara Melson. Prytanis: Mary Lula Williams. Hyparchos: Deon Moor. Protohyparchos: Aln Reed. Grammateus-Chrysophylax: Anita Haafke. Deuterohyparchos: Ruth Leinbach. Grammateus: Gertrude Harper. Epistolographos: Reba Abicht. PI—Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama Chrysophylax: Jack Hester. Prytanis: Doris Murphy, 4928 Farrell Ave., Fair field, Alabama. ALPHA DELTA—Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Hyparchos: Mary Virginia Respess, 1320 N. 24th St. Grammateus: Buford Truett, Men's Dormitory. Prytanis: Zoe Wells. Pyloros: Leon Gray, Brighton, Alabama. Hyparchos: Elsie Blackstone. Chrysophylax: George Currie, 871 7th Street West. Grammateus: Nell Allison. Epistolographos: Mildred Davis. Chrysophylax: Marie Merritt. OMICRON—University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Pyloros: Frances Lee. Prytanis: Richard W. Carr, 3707 Locust Street. Hyparchos: David Pastor, 5338 Arlington Avenue. ALPHA ZETA—Washington Square College, New York Univ. Grammateus: Charles DeLong, 4623 Chestnut Street. Chrysophylax: George Bateman, 240 Hopkinson Dor Prytanis: Irving Krongelb, 587 East 140 St., Bronx. mitory, 37th and Woodland Ave. Hyparchos: Sylvia Posen, 66 St. Paul's PI., Brook lyn, New York. Grammateus: Alice Checkovitz, 6618 Grand Ave., UPSILON—Miss. State College for Women, Columbus, Miss. Maspeth, Long Island. Epistolographos: Harold Lally, 44 Willis Ave., Prytanis: Maria Butler. Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Hyparchos: Doris Moreland. Chrysophylax: Meyer Franklin, 538 Eagle Rock Ave., Grammateus: Allie May Lindsey. Chrysophylax: Grace Ingram. West Orange, New Jersey. Pyloros: Mary Elizabeth Blaylock. ALPHA KAPPA—University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Prytanis: Robert Jones, 608 S. Mathews. CHI—Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Hyparchos: Margaret Hobson, 1106 S. Lincoln. Prytanis: Anna Tamarri, Voorhees Quadrangle, Coe Chrysophylax: Grundy Steiner, 1107 W. Illinois St. College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Grammateus: Olive Lauterback, 1111 W. Nevada. NOVEMBER, 1937 19
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ALPHA XI—Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri ALPHA TAU—Ohio University, Columbus, Ohio Prytanis: Rolland E. Stevens, 5232 Schollmeyer St. Prytanis: Miss Virginia Hohenstine, 2006 Chatfield Protohyparchos: Edith May Greiderer, 2124 Russell. Road. Epistolographos: Vera Anne Smith, 5500 Cabanne Protohyparchos: Miss Mary Straut, 506 Seymour Ave. Avenue. Grammateus: Mildred F. Eisennager, 3939 Page Deuterohyparchos: Mr. William Applegate, Tower Blvd. Club, Ohio State University. Chrysophylax: Margaret Ann Watson, 5038 Water Grammateus: Miss Virginia Merz, 61 West 11th man. Street. Pyloros: Susan Jane Ross, 5365 Cabanne Ave. Epistolographos: Miss Virginia Hoff, 2039 Collings- wood Road. Chrysophylax: Miss Dorotha Welling, 37 14th Ave. ALPHA OMICRON—Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin Pyloros: Mr. Sam Stregevsky, 2813 East Livingston Prytanis: Mary Jane Graettinger. Avenue. Protohyparchos: James Joseph. Grammateus: Ruth Barnes. ALPHA PHI—Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi Chrysophylax: Selden Spencer. Prytanis: M. F. Adams, 1416 North West Street, Jackson, Mississippi. ALPHA PI—Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Hyparchos: Mildred Clegg. Prytanis: Charlotte Waltemyer, 251 Springs Ave. Chrysophylax: James Kelly. Hyparchos: Roderic Senft, Student Christian Asso Grammateus: Blanton Doggett, Pi K A House, 1359 ciation Building. N. West Street. Grammateus: Mildred Sell, Biglerville, Pa. Epistolographos: Cecil Triplett. Chrysophylax: J. Loyd Dunkleberger. Pyloros: Roy DeLamotte. Pyloros: William Marks, Seminary Avenue. ALPHA PSI—Washington and Jefferson College, Washing ton, Pennsylvania ALPHA RHO—Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania Prytanis: C. G. White, Beta Theta Pi House, Wash Prytanis: Donald Pickaskie. ington, Pennsylvania. Protohyparchos: Norman Wilkinson. Hyparchos: P. W. Johnston, 436 East Bean Street, Grammateus: Norman Wilkinson. Washington, Pennsylvania. Chrysophylax: John McConomy. Grammateus-Chrysophylax: Marion Joseph Spence, Pyloros: Donald Schilickes. 1240 Sycamore Street, Washington, Pa.
ALPHA UPSILON—Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio ALPHA CHI—University of Tulane, New Orleans, Louisiana Prytanis: George Clark. Prytanis: Lucille Artigues, 2533 Calhoun St. Hyparchos: Elizabeth Neal. Hyparchos: Dorothy Everett, 3635 Napoleon Ave. Grammateus: Margaret Koons. Grammateus: Marianna Scott, 442 Lowerline St. Chrysophylax: Dorothy Longwell. Chrysophylax: Mary Pearce, 1022 Jefferson Ave. Pyloros: Elizabeth Schollenverger. Pyloros: Margaret Jean Till, 29 Newcomb Campus. Prices
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