Name/Title
Ward-Belmont Twentieth Century Club Documents 1916-17Entry/Object ID
2023.010Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A collection of documents for the Ward-Belmont Twentieth Century Club session of 1916-17. Includes a pamphlet detailing the club announcement, pledge, and a list of club groups with associated members (art, music, childhood, athletics, domestic science, literature, amusements, religion, scholarship, and travel); a pamphlet detailing the programs by club groups throughout January, February, March, April, and May of 1917; and documents listing the aforementioned club groups and associated members as well as various club information.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, Twentieth Century Club, 1916, 1917
