Minutes 17 March 1905
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Minutes 17 March 1905
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[Page 1] March 17 -
Our hostess on March 17th was Mrs. Dupuy. Seven a’s were put down opposite the roll, an unusual number but four visitors kept our ranks from looking thin. Mrs. Currie made mention of a recently published & complete collection of Swinburne’s poems. Our ignorance of Jas. F. Rhodes was uncovered by a mention of his history of the U.S. on which he is working. He is called our greatest living historian. The king of Siam’s custom of mating off each year the old maid of his realm with the inmates of the prisons who thus exchange one servitude for another – let us hope not worse - has influenced our Missionary member to postpone her departure until she has decided which suitor may accompany her. A Pittsburg millionaire has given one million dollars to New York City - its interest
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[Page 2] to be spent in making more sanitary the tenement houses slums where Consumption is now such a scourge. In her summary of current events Miss Hattie Thompson called attention to the lack of sanitary precaution in the Jap. army & hospitals. It is indeed surprising that they should have fallen short in this vital matter. A recently invented phonograph attachment for the telephone promises to be of considerable value. A colony of Japanese has bought a [track] in Mexico which they intend to devote to the culture of the silkworms. With the little “wurrums” as next door neighbors we hope shirt waist suits will come a little easier. Our subject for the afternoon Dr. W.W. Moore, whom some one has called “That favorite of Fortune” was too well known, as a native of Mecklenburg & graduate of Davidson, to need any
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[Page 3] introduction to the Club, but Mrs. Dupuy had succeeded in gleaming more interesting information about him. A man of charming personality, gifted both in mind & body he has become one of the most eloquent preachers of the Pres. church, & as a Hebrew Scholar takes rank with Dr. Harper of Chicago. A pupil of both says they are almost too unlike for comparison. Dr. Harper, he says thinks, is a finer-drill master, Dr. Moore a more inspiring teacher: Dr. Harper better for a dullard or indolent student, Dr. Moore for one already awake to his opportunities. Summing the matters up he adds briefly: Dr. Moore can put more into a man, Dr. Harper can get more out of him! Dr. Moore’s frail health & increasing deafness are causes of a grave apprehension. The Southern church can ill afford the loss of such a son. His book, “A Year in
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[Page 4] Europe” is altogether delightful, combining a charming style with a remarkable gift for imparting information in sugar coated pills, creating at the same time a thirst for more intimate acquaintance with the period, place or people of which he writes. Mrs. Grey enumerated the events or persons, which he cited as making Salisbury a place of importance. Miss Julia Holt did the same for Winchester, which he calls for the most interesting town of Southern Eng.
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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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17 March 1905
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For permission to reproduce image, contact archives@davidson.edu
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Language
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eng
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Identifier
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bl-043
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Coverage
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1905
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4049696
