Name/Title
Ward-Belmont T.C. Club Bid CardEntry/Object ID
2023.109Tags
Ward-BelmontScope and Content
A small card, decorated to look like a playing card, inscribed with the message "Your bid - to the TC Club Wednesday 4-6." TC Club refers to the Twentieth Century Club.Context
Ward-Belmont offered ten student social clubs, similar to sororities: the Twentieth Century Club (T.C.C.), X.L., A.K. (All 'Round), Osiron, Agora, Anti-Pandora, F.F., Penta Tau, Del Vers, and Tri K. Per this pamphlet, "the club system was introduced here because it was felt that national sororities had no place in a school such as Ward-Belmont. It was, therefore, to supplant the sorority plan with something that offered its advantages without the obvious disadvantages, that the club system was started." Like sororities, there was a week of rushing at the beginning of the school year, and new club members participated in an initiation.
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, Card