The New Student's Reference Work/American School in Rome

American School in Rome. This school was founded in 1895 by the Archæological Institute of America, and is supported by a number of American colleges and universities and by private gifts. In 1906, it had an endowment fund of nearly $100,000. The school is under the immediate superintendence of a resident professor, the director, who is assisted by a faculty of four specialists. The object of the school is "to promote the study of classical literature in its bearing upon antiquities and history; of classical, Etruscan and Italic art and archæology, including topography, palæography and epigraphy; and of the art and archæology of the early Christian, the mediæval, and the renaissance periods within the boundaries of Italy." The school year extends from October to July. Part of this time is usually spent in study in Greece.