These conclusions were set forth in a brilliant paper in the Journal on The Choragic Monument of Nicias.. The School was indebted to Mr. Kabbadias, the Ephor General of Antiquities, for permission to use the scaffolding. Even so, there was no candidate for the School fellowship for 19131914. A series of interesting articles dealing with the finds at Corinth during Wheelers regime appeared in the Journal. These gifts had begun in 1893. Resolutions noting the value and promise of his work and his eager helpfulness were adopted. This was increased by another gift of five hundred dollars in 1903. Most of the digging was in the area below the Temple of Apollo, where a stoa (later called the Northwest Stoa) with Doric exterior and Ionic interior columns was found behind the Roman vaulted chambers. The project, however, was not pushed energetically, and the present total (1944) of $3,506.12 is due largely to gifts from the Auxiliary Fund Association and accumulated interest. The Propylaea was to be completely and adequately published, but the work was never completed, while Nicias monument and the Delphic treasuries were beautifully reconstructed and published. But the most important work of the School in Crete was to be done by Richard Seager. At the end of 19141915 the extensive study of the Propylaea and western slope of the Acropolis had reached a point where Dinsmoor expects to be able to complete his task in another year. The next year (19151916) he was engaged for some time in Corinth but has about completed his work on the Propylaea. A year later (1917) the study is now about completed. Speedy publication was hoped for. He was Professor of the Greek Language and Literature at the School in 18921893, the first to hold that title. Just before the war brought all work at the School to a close both Director Hill and Architect Dinsmoor were honored by election to the German Archaeological Institute. At the theater a Roman frieze in high relief representing the Gigantomachia was found. The death of Heermance prevented any excavations at Corinth the next spring (1906), but the Greek archaeologist, Mr. Skias, dug trial trenches north and east of old Corinth which located the two ancient roads connecting Corinth with the port. It was thereupon voted that the regular representation upon this Committee may be increased from a single person, provided the nomination of such additional persons receive the approval of the Executive Committee. Whereupon it was further voted that Professor Smyth be continued upon the Committee. The School was honored by the award to Caskey of half the prize offered by the University of Strasbourg for work on Greek architectural inscriptions. This is clear from Seymours remark in 1898, already quoted, that there should be at least one more years digging. In 1916 he was again elected, with no term fixed for tenure. When Hill excavated that season he succeeded in locating the Odeum. Please continue to comment & share our post it helps others see our future post thank you for supporting Kendalls Greek be sure to tag us in . The endowment had been slowly built up till it had reached $97,790.88. hb```f``Ra`a`dbc@ >rL`87i;^t'w^uk0lc:uDkIt6&7hmBNx]\=u v;o8xik2Mn{be4Y6MUgW]tolw. His fellowship was renewed for a second year (19091910) and was then in view of the desires of the Carnegie Institution continued for two years more (19101912). Cost of material and freight rates had advanced. It was necessary to conduct a small excavation to determine the position of some of the walls. To the regret of all Norton was not able to come to this dinner. The manuscript would be sent to the printers about Christmas time (1906). Work was continued during the next two years. This is the last report of Corinthian excavations in the American Journal of Archaeology till 1925, when the work of that year was reported by T. Leslie Shear. The Balkan War and later the outbreak of the general European conflict prevented further work at Halae, but Miss Goldman and Miss Walker promptly published a report of their work, supplemented by an article by Miss Goldman in the Journal on the inscriptions from Halae and a later publication in Hesperia [Hesperia, Volume IX (1940)]. The change in the personnel of the Board of Trustees was almost as striking. The study of the Thessalian group at Delphi, by Kendall K. Smith and Miss Elizabeth M. Gardiner, led to satisfactory results. When Stevens returned to America in 1905 he brought the Erechtheum drawings with him. This extra expense was assumed by the Institute beginning with 1917. The routine of the School curriculum, lectures in the museums, the open meetings, the School trips, the contribution of the annual professorthese were details that no longer required debate nor need to be individually recalled. But the financial responsibility for the undertaking was at once a gaunt reality. Trial trenches, south of the South Stoa discovered the previous year, seemed to refute the suspicion that the Greek agora might be in that district. When work was begun at Corinth in 1896 the Managing Committee was scarcely conscious of the magnitude of the task. This was the last volume in which the publication of material dug at Corinth during Wheelers chairmanship appeared. The excavations by the staff of the School had been confined to Corinth and to exploratory digs on the Acropolis at Athens. The activities of the School had also been largely standardized. Henry D. Wood, Fellow in Architecture, 19061908, had given much of his time to a study of the west wing of the Propylaea at Athens. Miss Halls discussion of a new class of pottery found that seasonwhite decorations on a black groundis published in the Transactions of the Department of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and Art at the University of Pennsylvania. The students had been increasingly better prepared for their work. One large gift, twenty-five thousand dollars, had been received from the Carnegie Institution, but this had been almost offset by the use of endowment funds to finance the remodeling of the School building. After a brief illness Professor Wheeler died in New York, February 9, 1918. A careful and systematic excavation had not been conducted. In any case he soon abandoned the uncongenial subject and lectured on the history of Athens. For the campaign at Corinth in 1911 Wheeler quotes from the Directors informal report on the work of the students. From this it is clear that the question of water for Old Corinth was still acute. Of the three larger publications which might reasonably have been expected of Wheeler and the staff of the SchoolCorinth, the Erechtheum, the Propylaeanot one was completed. The committee wisely secured the cooperation of the womens colleges and, what was more effective, the leadership of Miss M. Carey Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr. But, as so frequently happens, the excavation did not yield the expected results. In May, 1910, a small but important excavation was conducted on the Acropolis at Athens. The labor of White, Norton, Goodwin and Seymour was accomplished. %%EOF The next year slow progress was registered; Elderkin was working on the historical introduction, and Hill on the inscriptions. Fowler lectured on the sculpture in the museums but deliberately curtailed his course because there seemed to me to be too many lecturesa belief in which Heermance heartily concurred. 868 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<5CCB27876F144D22B82B20D5DE9DEF76>]/Index[854 23]/Info 853 0 R/Length 76/Prev 894966/Root 855 0 R/Size 877/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Much pottery, many lamps and some inscriptions were found. Some work was also done at the theater. At his death he directed that his residuary estate be divided equally between the British and American Schools. And the work offered to the students had been on a higher plane than ever before. But during the meeting a cable arrived from the new chairman, Edward Capps, who was in Athens, stating that the deed for the property had been passed that month. Considerable historical material was found, and steady progress was reported the next year (1912), but delays had now become unavoidable. The following year good progress was being made, and the time of publication was distinctly nearer. During the winter of 19131914 Paton went to Rome to consult Stevens, who was then in the American Academy. He had then enrolled in the School at Athens for three years, first as Drisler Fellow of Columbia University and then for two successive years as Fellow of the Archaeological Institute. A discussion of the site of Opous by Blegen, who had charge of this investigation, was published in the Journal.

The results were published in a careful study by Hill in the Journal. Hoppin was Professor of the Greek Language and Literature for 19041905.

His re-appointment for two more years (19091911) gave him an opportunity to study in detail the whole west front of the Acropolis. This recommendation was unanimously accepted. They furnished the funds for this work. He was destined to serve the School almost continuously till his death in 1945. He had been a Fellow of Columbia University for two years (18981900) and had received his M.A. Fowler was to write the chapter on the temple sculpture. The roof needed to be rebuilt. At the meeting in Stevens, who was already in residence, was the first such appointment (for 19041905). By Laws & Regulations // Privacy Policy // Copyright 2022 American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Publications Based on Research at the ASCSA Archives. Besides, the addition to the building contained several more bedrooms available for students, a common room, a ladies parlor and a room variously used as a bursars office or an architects drafting room. Here this excellent project perished of inanition. restock alerts. He went to Europe in the summer of 1911, hoping to find new material for this publication in the libraries there. The following year it reported that a plot of land on Speusippou Street opposite the School was for sale and that it would be a suitable location for a womens hostel. Of these White retired in 1909, Goodwin died in 1912 but was inactive after 1910, Sloane held his trusteeship till 1918, and Gildersleeve till his death in 1924. After Heermances single year of tenure, preceding his directorate, what was termed a more or less permanently appointed secretaryship was held in succession by Lacey D. Caskey (19051908), George W. Elderkin (19081910), C. A. R. Sanborn (19111912).

Among the needs of the School created by its growing importance Wheeler mentioned at the meeting of the Managing Committee in 1907 the enlargement of the School building, especially the library, and the probable necessity of a permanent secretary. Samuel D. Warren and Edward J. Lowell, the first two Treasurers, were both dead, and Gardiner M. Lane, a son of Professor George Martin Lane, of Harvard, and a son-in-law of Gildersleeve, had been Treasurer since 1892. Wheeler consented to serve for the next year. Miss Harriet Boyd, a former Fellow of the School, began this year her brilliant excavation at Gournia in Crete.