The Greek tragedies were therefore read for other things than their stylistic and dramatic values.

The sons of Germania then exercised a profound influence on American education; Professor Gildersleeve himself was a graduate of Goettingen, and the necessity of "settling hoti's business" was strong in his seminar.
Gildersleeve was a writer of English who developed real style; as a Greek scholar, his fame rests chiefly upon his work in the field of historical syntax.

He assumed that his students could read Greek as easily as they could read French, and the really important tasks he set them had to do with the most abstruse fields of philology.

For work of this kind Page had little interest and less inclination.

When Professor Gildersleeve would assign him the adverb [Greek: prin], and direct him to study the peculiarities of its use from Homer down to the Byzantine writers, he really found himself in pretty deep waters.