Name/Title
Flowers and Fruit: A GameEntry/Object ID
2023.048Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A document detailing "Flowers and Fruit," a game/club activity (likely from the Twentieth Century Club) adapted from James Whitcomb Riley's poem "A Fruit Piece." After the poem was read as a whole, club members separated into their club groups, and each group leader drew the name of a piece of fruit at random. The leader, following their group's suggestions, then wrote a way of serving said fruit or a recipe for making something of it. These could be "serious or comic, according to the will of the group," and a prize was given for the best recipe or way of serving.Context
The Twentieth Century Club (T.C.C.) was a student organization and one of ten social clubs at Ward-Belmont, organized November 24, 1916. The club's purpose was an excerpt from English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson's collection Idylls of the King, specifically “Gareth and Lynette" (1872): "Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King, Else, wherefore born!" The club's motto was "Ideas and Ideals." Per the 1943 Milestones yearbook, club members "strive toward one goal - the maintenance of the high ideals of both their club and their school."Collection
Harpeth Hall School ArchivesLexicon
Search Terms
Ward-Belmont, Game, Twentieth Century Club