Minutes 16 March 1906
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Title
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Minutes 16 March 1906
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Description
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[Page 1] Ten members and three guests gathered with Mrs. Black upon the afternoon of March 16th, some familiar and much missed faces still being absent. Miss Holt furnished us some well chosen Current Events, thereby bringing to us in a nut-shell much that really interests us deeply, but the deeper search for which our busy lives constantly testify makes impossible: O’ for the quiet and peace of the average English woman’s life so that we too might be better as well informed concerning Bills in Congress as she is concerning Parliament! The gratitude of the Club in general & of its Secretary in particular has been laid at the feet of both Miss Holt and Mrs. Charles Grey for so kindly and so charmingly preparing the Minutes of two meetings during the absence of the Secretary. While these minutes were being read the Club listened with keen interest, seeing visions meantime of future capable Secretaries, and laying dark plans accordingly. At some future day these ladies will find
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[Page 2] that “virtue is not always its own reward.” The book under discussion was one of no ordinary interest, being one of our list of books that has interested and entertained from the first. Its very name, “Women of America,” piqued our curiosity at once, and we dipped hungrily into it to see what we found to be said of us as a class. Ah, yes, we knew it, we are delightful and individual, we are equaling men in Art & Letters, we are scholarly, whether co-educationally or otherwise, we are voting out West with glowing success, we are the real power behind the throne - & we are altogether to be desired in every circle and clime. What a wise woman Miss Elizabeth McCracken is, even if she did refuse us a line in answer to an appeal from our hostess: perhaps she is in Montana even now studying up some of our new types and so could not answer. But speaking seriously, we found this book excellent, well written, kindly sympathetic with every class the author deals with, &
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[Page 3] withal cool headed and calm in its judgments. The way in which Miss McCracken differentiates the college spirits of the Northern Colleges struck us as especially fine: she detects in Smith College the civic element that that makes the bugle call to knowledge : “your country needs you!” Bryn Manor she terms scholarly essentially, while Wellesley is more purely literary. Then too in her chapter on Reconstruction we welcome from her the warning to put from us now the memory of old animosities, and stand unitedly once and forever as Americans: to teach if needs be to our children the grave lesson of our Civil War, but to impress upon then that we can not afford to dwell unduly on the dead Past while the Present still is ours. And so the time flew in friendly intercourse all too quickly, and after the enjoyment of a delicious ice, the Club adjourned, all alive to the fact that we
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[Page 4] were indebted to Mrs. Black for a most pleasant afternoon.
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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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16 March 1906
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Rights
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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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Type
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text
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Identifier
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bl-057
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Coverage
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1906
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4049696
