{"id":6033,"date":"2013-03-26T04:35:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2013-03-26T04:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T11:44:40","slug":"the-many-clubs-of-holyoke-the-outlook-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/the-many-clubs-of-holyoke-the-outlook-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Clubs of Holyoke \u2014 The Outlook Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>04 October 1903<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Outlook Club<\/strong> continues its studies in English literature this year, taking the Georgian period (1704 &#8211; 1784). The officers are the following: President, Mrs. Clara Gaylord; vice-president, Miss Mabel Merrick; secretary and treasurer, Miss Helen Whitten. The following is the schedule of the year&#8217;s work:<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 6<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. D. B. Miller; &#8220;<em>The house of Hanover<\/em>,&#8221; Mrs. Clara Gaylord.<br \/>\n<strong>October 20<\/strong>, hostess, Miss J. L. Somers; &#8220;<em>Daniel DeFoe, writer, politician and spy,<\/em>&#8221; Mrs. J. N. Hubbard.<br \/>\n<strong>November 3<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. W. A. Allyn; &#8220;<em>Robinson Crusoe<\/em>,&#8221; parts 1, 2, and 3, Mrs. H. Whitten.<br \/>\n<strong>November 17<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. C. H. Taber; &#8220;<em>Thompson, the poet of Nature<\/em>,&#8221; his &#8220;seasons.&#8221; Mrs. O. D. Allyn.<br \/>\n<strong>December 1<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. W. H. Snow; &#8220;<em>Dr. Johnson, his life<\/em>,&#8221; Miss Mary Newell; &#8220;<em>Savage, the literary imposter, and friend of Johnson,<\/em>&#8221; Miss Mary Whitten.<br \/>\n<strong>December 29<\/strong>, open meeting, Mrs. O. D. Allyn.<br \/>\n<strong>January 12<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. C. P. Lyman; &#8220;<em>Rasselas<\/em>,&#8221; Mrs. D. R. Miller.<br \/>\n<strong>January 26<\/strong>, hostess, Miss H. Whitten, &#8220;<em>Johnson as a traveler, as a conversationalist<\/em>,&#8221; Miss J. L. Somers.<br \/>\n<strong>February 9<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. E. C. Bliss; &#8220;<em>Horace Walpole, life and letters<\/em>,&#8221; Mrs. W. A. Allyn.<br \/>\n<strong>February 23<\/strong>, hostess, Miss Mabel Merrick; &#8220;<em>Thomas Gray, poet and scholar<\/em>,&#8221; Mrs. W. H. Snow.<br \/>\n<strong>March 9<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. J. N. Hubbard; &#8220;<em>Goldsmith, his life and poems<\/em>,&#8221; Miss C. E. Meeham; &#8220;<em>The Vicar of Wakefield<\/em>,&#8221; Mrs. E. C. Bliss.<br \/>\n<strong>March 23<\/strong>, hostess, Miss C. E. Meeham; dramatic meeting, &#8220;<em>She Stoops to Conquer<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>April 6<\/strong>, hostess, Mrs. G. A. Martell; social meeting.<br \/>\nA<strong>pril 20<\/strong>, hostess, Miss M. Whitten; the Gothic romance, &#8220;<em>The Castle of Otranto<\/em>,&#8221; Mrs. C. H. Taber.<br \/>\n<strong>May 4<\/strong>, annual meeting, hostess, Mrs. Clara Gaylord; &#8220;<em>Life of Thomas Chatterton<\/em>.&#8221; Mrs. C. P. Lyman.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04 October 1903 The Outlook Club continues its studies in English literature this year, taking the Georgian period (1704 &#8211; 1784). The officers are the following: President, Mrs. Clara Gaylord; vice-president, Miss Mabel Merrick; secretary and treasurer, Miss Helen Whitten. The following is the schedule of the year&#8217;s work: October 6, hostess, Mrs. D. B. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,42,643],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6142,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}