Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-18
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB.
1t L. Going to Build House of Its Own
Prosperous and Growing Fast.

Prosperous and Growing Fast.
VNHE UNIVERSITY CLUB OF WASHING
Il ton Is about to erect q new home for itself
which is expected to be the handsomest club
house in the United States south Of New York.
No final determination has as yet been reached
respecting the location, but it will be on one of
the most fashionable streets and not far re-
moved from what is generally understood as
the "club quarter of the city.
Within the last year this club. known until
recently as the Meridian Club" has grown
very largely in membership. and it ia now on
high tide of prosperity. Its new constitution,
adopted with its change of NAME is modelled
after that of the leading university clubs else
where in the country. No other city in the
United States has a greater need than Wash
ington for club on a university basis, mas
much as there are resident here SO many men
Of distinction. in and out of Congress, who are
graduates OF colleges. 1t is expected that
university men who come hither, including
both those in public life and those out of it.
will prefer to join distinctively university
club for the sake of the utilization. In fact. the
idea is that this club shall have a certain
national character being situated at the cap
ital. Its special requirement for eligibility to
membership gives it feature and a province
Of its own.
iAO Adco VI CiuU lOT washing
ton has been discussed among college men in
this city and at college gatherings for years
past 1t remained, however, for Mr.. John H.
Voorhees, and Prof. W. d. Cabell to give def
mite shape to the undertaking of an organize
ton. Mr.. Voorhees, at the Princeton Alumni
dinner of 1890. being at that time president of
the Alumni Association. proposed that the or
ganiZation of a university club be at once be-
gun. Ia response to this suggestion Prof.
Cabell. through the columns u lHE EVEN
Ill, :.
the scheme and asked all gentlemen Interested
in the formation Of University Club to meet
at his house the 22d of February, 1880
Washington birthday.
In the summer of 1888 members Of the Me-
ridian Club, which had been formed the pre-
vious autumn and started February Is, 1883.
discussed vigorously the idea of making the
| club a university club, inasmuch as its men,
bers were nearly all college graduates. Owing
| to the absence from the city of a great many
| of the members the question of the change was
laid over and the idea was allowed to sleep
until the meeting at Prof. Cabells awakened
1t. A proposition was then advanced to
the effect that the inchoate university club
got together at Prof. Cabelrs residence
should combine with the Meridian Club,
the two together forming a university
club. The suggestion met with opposition in
both organizations, but by the efforts of Messrs.
John Sidney Webb, Henry Wise Garrett Regi-
maid Fendall and s. Herbert Geisy an arrange
/ ment was effected which resulted in the Me-
ridian Clubs changing its name, under new
articles of incorporation, to that Of The
University Club OF the District Of Columbia, -
its membership being at the same time aug
mented by majority of the charter members
OF the other proposed organization.
| This Is the latest event SO far recorded in the
history OF the Meridian, now the University
Club, which was started in 1883 by few young
| gentlemen OF Washington, who met at each
others houses for the sake of amusement and
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