Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-12
TO HONOR MEMORY
Art Students Will Erect Bronze Tab-
 let in This City.
OF KATE NOR

The February meeting of the Nor wich Art Students Association was held at the home of Mrs. Oliver l.. Johnson on Monday evening. The meeting was presided over by the president, Mrs William Birge. The reports of the secretary and the treas urer were read and approved. after which Mrs. Robert W. Perkins gave a brief report for the French orphan committee. The. resignations of Miss Briggs and Miss Ella Brown were read. Memorial, Miss Nancy F. Lucas, approved, and it was voted to leave the matter in their hands to carry out the plan suggested by them. The plan for such memorial follows: The as-
 sociation has voted $100 toward a simple memorial for Kate Morse It is planned to place a bronze tablet in an appropriate place to commemorate her work in Norwich. The remainder of the fund will be made up by con- tributions from friends and members of the association who may care to contribute. Anyone who may wish to avail themselves of this privilege may
 correspond with the chairman of the
 committee, Miss Nancy F.. Lucas, 94
 Sachem street. Norwich, Conn.
 Following the business meeting the paper of the evening was read by Miss Faith Leavens, entitled From Belgian Culture to German Kulture, and dealing with the cities of Ypres and Louvain and their great contribu- ton to the culture of Belgium.
 Ypres, situated in western Elan
 ders. was settled early in the tenth century. From the twelfth to. the fourteenth centuries. were troublous and warlike times, but in the thir- teenth she reached the height of her power. The fourteenth saw her be- ginning to give way to Ghent and
 Bruges. Many things contributed to 1 her waning influence. chief amone them being the great plaques which
 scourged her and the many trade trou- bies which arose. from time to time
 Up to 1914 however she still preserved much of her golden past.
 | The weaving of cloth seems indi.
 genous to the soil of Flanders Int ! first commerce of Flanders was in ,tht 1 ordinarsT article of cloth and her com l merce became of the uttermost import I ance tG her.
 From the extraordinary expansion of the industry of weaving grew III the great system of guilds. the band ing together of weavers and cloth makers. It's first purpose was that 0
 brotherhood and community of inter ! est, but later it developed into a forn of class spirit, the working peopl
 banded against the aristocracy. I
 was in reality the forerunner of ou
 modern labor unions.
 1 Miss Eunice. Gul1iver read a shor
 account from Froissart's Chronicles 0 the conflict between the knight guarding the gates of Ypres and tn
 laboring men of Ghent, called the dea
 cons of small handicraft. which lief
 the men of Ghent masters of the city
 The soul of the Guild was it's meeting which was held once a month or oft
 ener, accompanied by great ceremony
 A great artistic contribution to Elan iers and to the world in general wa ,l their cloth hall irYpres, built in tn fourteenth century. The life of tn entire city centred about the squar back of the cloth hall. fetes, the ker ness and reception of important guest of the city. all being carried on ther, Of the Ypres of today we canne speak A mass of ruins and a hea of stones is all that remains of tn
 Cloth Hall. The wealth of Louvain also originat ed from weaving. but not to that due her fame. It rests rather on tn , glorious university, which. founded i 1 142S, grew until in the sixteenth cen l tury it became one of the greatest l the world It became. the centre { g humanisn and all the life gathere about the university was the city 3 greatest contribution to Flanders ar t the world in general. Men such { t Erasmus. Justis Iipsius. Wives, Claf = nard Gerard Mercator Versaiiliu }. noted for their interest in intellectu t development and alls things pertainir k to the advancement of humanii = taught and studied there. Empert