Minutes 20 November 1903
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Title
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Minutes 20 November 1903
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Description
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[Page 1] November 20th 1903
The big fire was a welcome sight as the ladies drew up in Mrs. Grey’s parlor that cold November twentieth. Three visitors kindly swelled our number to eleven, for there were five absentees. So many books not brought in raised a question of enforcing the fine for that neglect, and the president was waxing warm on the subject; but milder counsels prevailed and a warning was uttered that the next delinquent should pay for the new blank book. There were ten or fifteen minute of chatter before the members all gathered, and the hour of the meeting, quarter to four, was emphasized. Fortunately Mrs. Currie had her glasses and was able to read her minutes carefully and thoughtfully prepared. The death of several authors was noted; Gilmore and Merriman among the number. Some of the ladies felt a little spiteful recalling the low and vicious type of female character portrayed in “The Sowers” and others of Merriman’s books.
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[Page 2] A few thorns were reported among the roses in Woodrow Wilson’s wreath as historian. Dickens’ birthplace has been bought and made a public museum of his personal relics. Mrs. Grey then introduced the poet Browning as subject for the evening. Mrs. Dupuy gave Browning the man, wonderfully healthy in body, mind and morals. The circumstances of his marriage to Elizabeth Barell full of love and romance are always interesting. Instances were cited of the fun and merriment of his friends and critics on the obscurity of his poems. This is due to an unfortunate style of expression rather than to philosophical depth or vain conceit. His pen writes “Comes the man” when he means simply the man comes.” Miss Holt read a comparison between Browning’s Prospice and Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar,” rather unjust some thought. Miss Leftmich interpreted a letter from Karshish, an Arabian physician, and
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[Page 3] “picker up of learning’s crumbs” as he styles himself to his Superior he writes from Bethany in the first century of meeting Lazarus a man raised from death to life. Besides the physical phenomena he is much interested in the fact that the perspective of a man four days in the spirit-world is so spoiled that he can no longer rate things here as others do. We were grateful to Miss Leftmich for reading more into the poem then we thought possible. Some of the old house keepers were afraid they would have to yield Mrs. Grey the palm as ice cream-maker so they all scurried home in the gloaming . Mrs. J.J. Dupuy
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Subject
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Women-North Carolina-Davidson-Societies and clubs.
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Books and reading.
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Women-Societies and clubs.
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North Carolina-Davidson.
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Creator
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BookLovers Club
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Publisher
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Davidson College
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Date
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20 November 1903
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Language
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eng
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Identifier
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bl-026
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Coverage
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1903
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4049696
