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gramme for the year is comprehensive.
1t systematically covers all points Be-
| fore beginning Intellectual work it was
necessary for the Odd Volumes to re-
| elect one officer and elect four others.
This a short time ago they proceeded to
do. Miss Gaines was, of course, re-elect-
ed president. The others are:-Vice
| President, Mrs. George B. Eaton; record
| ing secretary, Miss Harrison of Newark;
| corresponding secretary, Miss Helen Mo-
BILE; treasurer, Mrs. John Headden, third.
The Membership Committee is Mrs.
Eaton, Mrs. Slater, and Miss Mcbride.
The club has already had two literary
DAYS. The religion of Greece will be I'M
der discussion at the next meeting, No
rember II. Airs. Headden will Civ al
paper on "Cosmography of Greece, Olym-
plan Council, Oracles." Miss Noble Will
discuss The Olympian System, the
Sacred Games and Their Influence; Meas
ure of Time; Amphictyonic Council. The
years programme is:-December |, Ly-
curgus and the Growth of Sparta, Mrs.
Brett; Draco, Scion, Cleisthenes and
Growth of Athens, Mrs. Beach. Deem
Der Is, G-raeco-Persian War, First and
Second Invasion under Darius, Marathon,
Miltiades. Miss Buffet; Third Invasion
under Xerxes, Salamis, Plataea, Myceale.
Conditions of Athens, Themistoeles,
Mrs. H%artshorne. December %, Athenian
Supremacy, Cause and Results. Mrs.
Eaton; P~ericles, Social Life in Greece in
the Golden Age, Mrs. Myers. January II,
Didactic and Lyric Poetry, Hesiod, Pin
dar, Theocritus, Mrs. Wait; Greek The
atre and Drama, Theatre of Dionysius,
Mrs. Lyle. January 26, Aeschylus and
Sophocles, with quotations, Mrs. Case;
Ar~istophanes and Comic Poets, with quo
tations, Miss Pitcher; Euripides, with
quotations, Miss Van Wrinkle. February
9, The Greek School Of Architecture,
temples at corinth, Delphi and Ephesus,
Mrs. Marshall: Athenian Acropolis and
the Parthenon, Mrs. Merrill. February
%. Sculpture and Painting, Phidias,
Praxiteies, Mrs. Cendict; Greek Music,
Mrs. Slater. March 9, Historians, Her
oditas. T~hucydides. Nenophon, Miss Adri-
ance; Orators, Demosthenes, with quota
tions from Demasthenes, Pericles and
Themistccles. Miss Speir. March IS,
Greek Philosophers, Pythagoras, Socrates
and the Sophists, Miss Mcbride; Plato,
Aristotle, with quotations, Miss Grower
April 6, Later Philosophers, Zeno and
E.picurus. Miss Doremus; Science, Math-
eruatics, Medicine-Isuclia, A~rchimedes,
Hippocrates, Mrs. Walker April q, Spar
tan and Theban Supremacy, Altered
Character of Sparta, Lysander, Miss
Bowen; Macedonian Supremacy, Philip
Alexander, States formed from Empire
of Alexander, Miss Sherwood. May 4,
Supremacy, I4s b. {. to 56 A. D.,
Constantine J%ustinian. Leo the Isaurian,
Mrs. Dunn; Rise and Decline of Byzan-
tine influence. 1l6-i45S. Scattering of Greek
Scholars after the fall of Constantinople,
slavonians. Mrs. S,inlets; Turkish PEI
riod, l4s3-1S2l, Social Condition of Greece
until Extinction of Child-tribute, vene-
tian Domination, l~6S4-lI1s, Mrs. Stevens.
May IS, Causes and Events that Prepared
the Greeks for Independence, l~iiS-lssl,
War Of Independence Marco Bozzarls,
Byron in Greece. Greece of Today. Mrs
Babbitt: Influence of Ancient Greece upon
the CIVILIZED World of The Nineteenth
Century. Mrs. Denniston; Special DAY.
Sappho and Aspasia, Miss Gaines; Spe- |
cial Day on Greek Art at MetropoliIan
Museum of Art
The club members are:-Miss Adrtanee,
Mrs. r. o. Bahbitt, Mrs. Marcus Beach,
Miss Bowen, Miss Buffet. Mrs. Cor
neiius Brett. Mrs. George w Case, Mrs
Frank Cavalli. Mrs. Talbot r. Chambers,
Mrs. Henry v. Condict, Mss Grower.
Mrs. Alexander Denniston, Miss Dore-
mus of Montclair, Mrs. Ward Dunn, Mrs.
George B. Eaton. Miss Fitch, Miss
Gaines. Miss Harrison. Mrs. Charles H
H~artshorne, Mrs. John Headden, third:
Mrs. Robert Lyle. Mrs. Grace Marshall,
Miss Jean Mcbride, Mrs. H B. Merrill. |
Mrs. Robert Myers, Miss Helen @. No
Bile. Miss Pitcher, Mrs. James Robottom,
Miss Sherwood, Mrs. Howard Slater. Miss
Kate Speir, Mrs. Frank Stevens, Mrs.
Charles c.. Stimets, Miss Van Wrinkle.
Mrs. H. C. Wait, Mrs. John A Walker, |
honorary members, Mrs. E. F. C. Young.
Mrs. G.. c. Newman. Mrs. 2. X. Pang-
born, Mrs. S. B. Clifford and Miss E. E.
Burdick.
Two hundred and sixty-fve charitably
inclined women paid one dollar yesterday
ito help the dear little children in the
Home for the Homeless'-and to have a
chance at the beautiful prizes.
s*
Mr.. and Mrs. James Pope. Jr., are now
at home, No. 16l Summit avenue. They
have but recently returned from their
wedding Journey. Mrs. Pope was Miss
Fanny Ford Noble of Admission, Alabama.
They received their friends every after
noon this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Dear. Jr.. nave also
returned from their wedding tour. They |
are busy furnishing their handsome new
residence. Bentley avenue. The lot was
given them by Mrs. Dear's father, Mr..
Reid, and MI. Joseph A Dear built the
house.
Miss Ramsey, h was Miss Anna
Reds roommate at Smith College, is
visiting Miss Reid at her house, Bergen
avenue.
There were forty-seven handsome prizes
at the charity euchre, donated by promi-
nent merchants to help-the Home?
day at Hasbrouck Institute to discuss
Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard
Kipling and their works Before the dis
cussion the Ramblers win decide where
they will go for their annual ramble. A
large number of the member say their
preference is for a matinee, as was sug 1
gested at the last meeting. Hitherto
they nave rambled to places of historic
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