EDUCATION. There are in the city primary, secondary, normal, technical, and industrial schools, and the National University, founded in 1837, which was named Otho University, in honor of King Otho, and after his abdication received its present title. The income of the University is over $(`)0,000; the number of stu dents about 3000. The faculties comprise the ology, law, medicine, and arts. The university bas a number of museums, laboratories, and a library of more than 200.000 volumes and 2000 MSS. Besides this there are the rich library of Parliament, with 160.000 volumes, the National Museum, and that of the Acropolis.
But to foreigners the chief educational im portance of Athens centres not. in the university, but in the various schools established there by other nations, for study of Greek archaeology. Of these the American School of Classical Studies is of especial importance. It was founded by the Arelneological institute of America and opened in 1882. It is supported by regular contributions from American universities and colleges and by gifts, and has a permanent director and secretary and a professor of Greek language and literature chosen annually from among the institutions which support it. It has three scholarships, two for men and one for women. its students are in
the main drawn from American colleges and uni versities. Besides instruction it devotes much time to investigation. Its organ is the American Journal of Archwology. Like this in many re spects is the French School at Athens, founded in 1846, which is supported by the State and con trolled by it. with the assistance of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. It is man aged by a director and associates. The British School at Athens was founded in ISM, is sup ported partly by the Government and partly by contributions from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, and private subscription. It. is under the control of a managing committee in London and a director, assistant-directo•, and secretary in Athens. Like the American School, it devotes itself to both teaching and excavation. Of equal importance is the Royal German Arch aeological Institute, founded in 1874, supported by the Government and under the control of a directorate in Berlin, represented by secretaries both in Athens and in Rome. The work of this institute has been of an unusually high char acter. All these organizations issue monographs. and proceedings.