~merican .Scbool of <!Ila$$tcal .Stu'tlie$ at ~tben$ . THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MANAG­ ING COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICA SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS ( To the Council of the A ·rcha eological I nstitute of Ame1·ica : GENTLEMEN,- I have the honor to report on the affairs of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the year ending August 31, 1911.1 On September 8, 1910, the death of Professor Lamberton of the University of Pennsylvania occurred. H e had been a member of the Managing Committee since 1889, and during the earlier years of his membership he attended the meetings of the Committee and was instrumental in' maintaining the sub­ scription of the University of Pennsylvania. Of late years he gave over these duties to Professor Bates, but without ceasing to feel a sincere interest in the welfare of the School. Judge Francis C. Lowell, the President of the Board of Trustees, died on March 6, 1911. Shortly before his death, he was actively engaged in the work of raising money for tbe enlargement of the school building. The letter asking for subscriptions which he had written has since been used by the Treasurer. The · death of Judge Lowell is a great loss to the SchooL He had recently been in Greece, and had become much interested in the work there; he was thus singularly well fitted to bring the Board of Trustees into close touch with the affairs of the School. The tragic death of Mr. H. F. De Cou at Cyrene has taken ft;om us a former Fellow and Secretary, to whom the School 1 Owing to the prolonged illness of the Director this report has been consider­ ably delayed. :For the same reason portions of the Director's informal report have been incorporated in that of the Chairman of the Managing Committee, and the usual separate report of the Director will not be issued. 129 130 ARCII.AEOLOGIC.A L INSTITUTE OF AMERICA .AMERICAN SCHOOL AT ATHENS 131 owes a debt of gratitude for his thorough scholarship and great Miss Emerson, was a student during the year 1895-96, and this learning. His residence in Athens was longer than that of bequest was prompted by the memory of that year's work. any one who has been connected with the School, except Pro­ The money will be used for the. fittings of the special room fessor Richardson and the present Director, and in the history intended for women students, in the addition to the school of the School his name deserves high honor. building. The bequest comes to us most gratefully as an ex­ Justice William C. Loring of the Massachusetts Supreme pression of appreciation on the part of a former student who Court has been elected President of the Bortrd of Trustees. has left with all who knew her the memory of a singularly iVIr. F. A. Vanderlip and Mr. Alexander S. Cochran have also gracious personality. been elected members of the Board. As a Christmas gift to the School, Mr. James B. Hammond It is gratifying to be able to record much progress in the of the Hammond T ypewriter Company sent to Athens a fully plans for the enlargement of the school building. Through equipped typewriter of the latest pattern. This has been of the generosity of many givers, whose names appear in the lists great service in the Director's office. Another useful gift, of cont ribut or~ , the necessary funds are now in hand, and from Professor Alice W alton, has been that of a desk. arrangements are being made for the purchase of such materials In Athens the work of the year has gone on well, except for as can best be obtrtined in this country. the illness of the Director, which came late in the summer, dur­ The progress, too, reported by the Committee on Publication ing the vacation. The work of next year rather than of this is satisfactory. Mr. Seager's report on the excavations at will consequently be affected, since the Director must be Mochlos has been issued in attractive quarto form, and the absent during a part of the winter. Fortunately, with Pro­ volume mrty now be had by applying to Professor Chase of fessor Gulick, Mr. Sanborn, and Mr. Dinsmoor at the School, Harvard. Professor J. l\1. P aton has been chosen editor of the work is not likely to suffer during his absence. There has the publication on the Erechtheum, and he is now at work in been a larger number of students than usual at the School - some of the libraries of northern Europe, seeking to discover eleven in all, of whom all but three were registered for the full hitherto unknown records of the temple. Articles representing session. Nine different institutions are represented in this the work of members of the School have appeared in the Jour­ number. I quote from the Director's informal report on the nal of Archaeo logy, the Joumal of Philology, and in the Bulletin work of the students : de correspondance hellenique. "The lectures offered by the Secretaries of the Austrian and On December 29, 1910, the IVIanaging Committee held a German Institutes have been open as usual to members of other Special Meeting in Prov~dence, R.I., to consider the question schools. All of our students heard Professor Dorpfeld's very of electing a Director. Mr. Hill was ·unanimously chosen short series of lectures on Athenian Topography in the early to the office for a second term of fiv e years. The office of part of the year ; six were in regular attendance upon the care­ Secretary has not bee n filled during the past year: the duties ful, detailed lectures by Professor Karo on the smaller antiqui­ co nnected with it have been performed by two of the Fellows ties (of the earlier periods, especially : from neolithic to and by Mr. Storey of the staff of The Museum of Fine Arts in archaic) in the National Museum; two members of the School Boston, who was in Athens during the first half of the school attended Professor von Premerstein's course in Epigraphy; year. In May, Mr. Sanborn, Fellow of the Institute, was and three listened to Dr. Walter on Marble Reliefs in the chosen Secretary for the year 1911- 12. National and the Acropolis Museums. The debt of the School The bequest of $500 .by Mrs. Ruth Emerson Fletcher to the to these four gentlemen is thus obviously great. All the new Archaeological Institute for the School is mentioned in the members of the School have taken part in the exercises which report of the President of the Institute. Mrs. Fletcher, as I have conducted in the st~dy of Athenian buildings. The 132 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA AMERICAN SCHOOL AT ATHENS 133 course has as heretofore included few lectures, and has been in the fifth to eighth decades of the century ; and he has made a general a combination of seminar and laboratory exercises - so careful revision of his dissertation on certain features of the to say. The work requires a large amount of time both from syntax of Isaeus and !socrates in comparison with that of Attic the students and from me, but results have seemed fully to psephismata preceding 300 B.C. The dissertation is being justify the cost. There has been a marked increase, unless my printed in Athens. The Fellow of the Institute, Mr. Sanborn, observation is quite at fault, in the average ability of members has performed the regular duties of Librarian; has continued to understand ancient buildings and on occasion to follow intel­ and very nearly completed his careful study of the coins found ligently the reconstruction of them from scanty or confused in the excavations at Corinth; has written a paper on a head remains. Our work this year was almost confined to the of Dionysus discovered there last year; ha.s given me much Acropolis. I shall endeavor hereafter, while not neglecting valuable help in the revision of various papers on Corinth; and the disciplinary side of the work, to make the course a fairly is preparing a guide to the excavations. Miss w· alker has given complete study of Athenian Topogrfl.phy. This is clearly the greatest part of her time to the thorough study begun last necessary now that it is probable we e<m no longer have the year of the vases and vrtse-fragments from Corinth, and has advantage of Professor Dorpfeld's peripatetic lectures. now very nearly concluded the work. In order to gather sup­ "Apart from travelling and attending lectures or other· exer­ plementary data at first hand, she is sifting and observing cises of our own and foreign schools, the members of the School closely the product from the excavation of successive strata in have given a large amount of time to their own special studies. a small pit sunk in the Agora at Corinth at ~t point where fill­ As Fellow in Architecture, Mr. Dinsmoor has continued the ings and accumulations lie undistur·bed from the late Greek excellent work tl1at has become the estab!ished tradition of that surface uown to hardpan. This work may well supply impor­ F ellowship. He has made good progress in piecing together tant evidence both for the history of ceramics and for the dating and restoring the building inscriptions of the Propylaea and of of the various Greek periods at Cot·inth. Dr. Phan, the F el­ the Parthenon; he has continued the work on the Propylaea low of the School, has begun and made good progress with a which is to constitute the principal part of his labors for the collection of sources for knowledge of the Attic demes; he remainder of the time we can expect him to remain in the found recently at Vari an inscription- a fragment of a fourth School; he has made a new plan of the Parthenon and some of century honorary decree - which promises to be of value, the necessary drawings for my paper on the Earlier Parthenon; though no certain identification of persons has yet been possi­ he has in process a complete plan of our excavations at Corinth ble.