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THE volume before us might truly be described A as a “war number,”for it represents not only the published work of the British School at Athens for the first regular session after the armistice, but also mainly the results of observations made while on duty by actual and former students. The seven students of the British School of Archæology who lost their lives during the war, and the school's distinguished and learned librarian, F. W. Hasluck, who died early in 1920 of a malady caused or aggravated by war service in Greece, are appropriately commemorated, and a brief summary shows the war work which fell to other students. It is a striking and varied record. If the school had done nothing beyond training for eventual public service in Greece and the Near East so large a body of men accustomed to observe accurately, handle native labourers tactfully and economically, and act with expert know-ledge and executive efficiency, it would have earned many times over the miserable allowance which it receives annually from the Treasury. Special mention is made in the annual report and in a letter of thanks from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the services of the director, Mr. A. J. B. Wace, who was attached to the British Legation at Athens during the war while carrying on the school as a hostel for British officers in transit or on duty in Greece.
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War-time Archæology1. Nature 106, 834–835 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106834a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106834a0