The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-02-01
For THE JOURNAL.

10 inc yobRS SeHttehteH " O'"0"
thc uicia;ty, Of classic education.
For our mutual benefit. [ propose that
we form an association, TO be called Tx;
Camden Classic Reading, or Quiz Clud;
or by any other style. -,
To meet an evening, semi'monthly' to
converse upon such parts of some two Oh
the ancient Classics, (Greek and Latln) as
NAV be then under the reading and review
of the Club.
AT every monthly meeting, in addition to
the classic conversation, question to ne
raised by the president at the same met
ing on one or two chapters of Hume's En-
Gland or Gibbons Rome, shall be discuss
ed. The chapter or chapters TO be atten-
lively read and reflected upon, by every
member of the Club, prior to the meeting
That the Club begin with Virgil and Ze-
nnphon, and GO regularly through the col
Iega course of the series. That Hume and
Gibbon be read from the beginning to the
end. with maps, ancient and modern. Ihat
in the progress of the Clrb, other suhJects'
Political Economy, Metaphysics De!ies-
lctres, &c. be adtcd.
That twice year an Grafton on some
scientific subject, legitima;aiy embraced
within the prescribed reading Of the Club,
shall be written, and read or delivered be-
fore the Club, and such other citizens as
may choose to hear il, bya member, IN al
piaset;cal rotation. That the Ciub pur-
chase Jointly, classic and scicntItic IL
brarv.
To raise funds for that purpose, every
member shall contribute annually, for three
wears, twelty dollars; - be counted from
the date of his membership, so that every
member Of the Club. who!hrr he join at
one time or another, sEia,i pay tie same
amount 10 that fund.
That every member, at the expiration Of
three years fron. The date of his member
ship, shall pay annually ten dollars for that
purpose.
10 raise contingent fund, every mem
Der of the Club shall keep correct and
,tue ulit, from tho Gate OF his meInter-
ship to The fist meeting in January in sue
cession, of the amour. Of money he may
nav, or te charged with, fo7 wine, segars,
&c. g.; and shall exhibit the same to
the Club, to DC read and recorded; and
every member shall pay into ;he treasury
OF th,s, C...L> a sum Of money doub'" the
amount of his sail account. The money
so raised. shall be called the contingent
fund, to pay honse rent, wood, lights, sta
tionery, &c. &c 4 deficit of the con-
tingent fund to pay those expenses, shall
be paid by cap;.ation assessment.
After the Club is formed, nc person shall
be admitted to membership in it otherwise
than BIZ the unanimous vote ofthe members
present al a regular meeting.
At the end of the first year Of the Club
no one shall be admitted to membership
in it, who is rot at the time of his appli-
cation, member OF some Temperance
Society.
The undersigned has been rejecting
some time upon something like the aoovc
proposed club; tha, is the result of his de-
liberations Bn, let the objects contempla-
ted by it be the basis; he is perfectly will
ing. and would prefer, to have the detail
altered, amended or made do uovo, by the
Association.
Any comment to show the utility and ad-
vantage Of such club, is uEcalled for, and
however classic and chas!e it might be
written, it would be stale.
DEMOS KRATOR.
Camden, Jan. 80, 1910.
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