"He makes me grow wonderfully.

When I have a chance to enjoy AEschylus as I have now, I go to work on those immortal pieces with a pleasure that swallows up everything." To the extent that Gildersleeve opened up the literary treasures of the past--and no man had a greater appreciation of his favourite authors than this fine humanist--Page's life was one of unalloyed delight.

But there was another side to the picture.

This little company of scholars was composed of men who aspired to no ordinary knowledge of Greek; they expected to devote their entire lives to the subject, to edit Greek texts, and to hold Greek chairs at the leading American universities.

Such, indeed, has been the career of nearly all members of the group.