In a recent article in the Alumni Bulletin, Lincoln MacVeagh '12, American Minister at Athens, hailed archaeology as the most blameless of sciences.
"In no way," says MacVeagh, "can it be made to serve, as so many other sciences do, the ends of those lethal arts by which men destroy themselves and their civilizations.
"It is a gentle science, but a potent one, since it adds so appreciably to the abundance of the intellectual life."
"There are doors in the investigation of antiquity before which history properly hesitates, and through which only archaeology can lead the way."
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