The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-14
DEPARTMENT CLUBS
Wide Scope Of Programs in Duluth,
Denver and Milwaukee Womens
Organizations.
Varied Tastes and Needs Of a Large
Membership Provided
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The leading department club in Minne-
sofa, in fact the only organization really
entitled to that distinction is the Twen
tieth Century club of Duluth. The off,
GERS of the club are: President, Miss Mary
B. Statham; first vice president, Mrs. F.
L. Barrows; second vice president, Mrs.
J. H. Crowley; third vice president, Mrs.
w. D. Underhill; recording secretary, Mrs.
Charles H. Merritt; corresponding secre-
tary, Mrs. Henry G. Marshall; treasurer,
Miss Elizabeth Anderson; historian, Mrs.
| James D. Morrison; honorary vice presi-
dents, Mrs. H. r. Jones, Mrs. r. N.
Marble, Mrs. H. r. Baldwin, Mrs. George
Elder; chairman, Mrs. Thomas K. Hicks,
Mrs. c. Lecture, Mrs. z. D. Scott, Mrs.
Henry F. Greene, Mrs. N. F. Hugo, Mrs.
James McAuliffe, Mrs. A. E. Prudden,
Mrs. E. Haven. .... . -. (
The club will begin its fall work with
a reception for the president, Sept. %,
and it's program meeting Oct. 5 when Miss
Caroline Beaumont of st. Paul will be the
speaker. The club meetings are held in
the new Carnegie library. The literature
department is one of the strong depart
ments Of the club and maintains several
study classes. The Thursday morning
class in ShaEspere is led by Mrs. Henry
c.. Marshall and the plays studied will be
"Othello," Merchant Of Venice" and
Much Ado About Nothing" The English
| chairman Of the department has the fol-
lowing interesting outline Of work:
Pen pictures from prose writer's:
Sst Ha Hal Ry MIS- Nuloch
Oct. 2smDickens' s.Humor and fathos,'' Pick.
wick Papers,; and David C.egp appepf
Nicholas Nickieby' and ''Bleak House.
rhetorical studies in poetry and prose; ,,,.
"Odes,'' Coleridge and Shelly.
Dec a-Essays from Macauley, Carlyle and
Tennyson from different standpoints:
JAM Tsnag sons psoso Of the Ne
..T FEB: lomEel Mono1ogues, 'Locksley Hail. and
Feb. 2-Rosume by Miss Pandergast.
March hd I've 4 Kinns e
The literatur department also includes
a current events class of which Mrs Will
liam Fisher and Mrs. Huldah 8. Rock
well are leaders.
The program Of the home department
of which much is made in the club, will
not be fully outlined until the beginning OF
the club year, but the department will
coz operate with the normal school in es-
tablishing and maintaining a department
of domestic science in the school The
home and education department has for its
chairman Mrs. J. H. Crowley, former
president of the club and Mrs. J. G. Har.
ris, secretary. The travel class belong:
in this department and will study Russia
I Several special lectures will vary the worl
of the members.
Il The Denver club women are planning To-
the activity of next year. The various
committees have met and already the pro
grams for next year are fully arranged
4 The home and education department will
take up a line of work prepared by tn
chairman on "Life's Relations Unde
Il -, v..;n tha fo11 ,frer c,,1>- h. Ic
3 'Self Relation "Home Relation $50
cial Relation" "Civic and Universal Re
lation," each comprising a number o
> topics. There will be eight general meet
$ ings There will also be two evening meet
q ings, one social evening for the teacher
& and the other an original play written b.
one of the members, and acted by tn
$ members Of the club.
The social life Of the club will be in tn
form of luncheons and discussions whic
: will be held once a month.
The form of the Saturday meetings wi
4 be changed somewhat from the previou
q years. They will be opened with must
3 or poem and there will always be a cur
n rent events report.
One of the principal features Of the de
: partment this year will be the stud
r classes These will be conducted in ply
= steal training, domestic science. chill
! study, school visiting parents meetings
. public speaking, discussion classes an
) civics. In these classes there will b
!, chance for development along the line G
!. the work of the departme nt. The classe
/, will be open to the public upon the pay
IS ment Of a small fee.
J. The department of social science WI,
+ take as it's general topic, THE Relatio
g of Industrial Conditions to Moral and Pc
= litical Progress
(; % The College Endowment association Q
3 Milwaukee is one of the most importan
., .agencies for education and culture in tina
9. city. It has a very large membership an
~ provides lectures and classes for its mem
Is bers on very wide range Of subjects
= The departments include literature, home
i education, philanthropy. social economic.
- science, music. current topics and art
and crafts The prospectus for the com
Z ing year shows many interesting mad I'm
Il portant features.
The most novel offering in the lectur
!. course is a series Of six lectures by Pro
ID fessor Toyokichi Iyenaga, a JAPANESE VIII
.. will lecture on his country. Profess
!; Carter Troop of Chicago will give cours
- Of lectures on the great novelists OF tn
Z nineteenth century, In the arts and craft