{"id":6040,"date":"2013-04-02T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=6040"},"modified":"2013-04-02T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T10:55:00","slug":"the-many-clubs-of-holyoke-the-qui-vive-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/the-many-clubs-of-holyoke-the-qui-vive-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Clubs of Holyoke \u2014 The Qui Vive Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

04 October 1903<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Qui Vive Club<\/strong> is to take up as their topic for the year “China.” Their program is quite exhaustive, and in their work they are assisted by a list of 75 or 100 books printed in each topic leaflet. Mrs. Robert A. Allyn is president of the club, Miss Katharine Skinner vice-president and Miss Gertrude Chadwick secretary and treasurer. The topics for the season are as follows:<\/p>\n

October 6<\/strong>, “A tourist’s view of the country<\/em>,” Miss Underwood; “The Chinese people, their characteristics and employments<\/em>.” Miss Katherine Slkinner; club work, “Curious Chinese customs<\/em>.”
\nOctober 20<\/strong>, “The early history and mythology of China<\/em>,” Miss Thayer; club work, “Chinese traditions<\/em>.”
\nNovember 3<\/strong>, “The later history (1432-1903)<\/em>,” Miss Clara Chapin; club work, “Gen. Charles George Gordon<\/em>.”
\nNovember 17<\/strong>, Introductions to European nations,” Mrs. W. R. Shumway; club work, “Marco Polo and explorers<\/em>.”
\nDecember 1<\/strong>, “The Chinese government<\/em>,” Miss Chapin; club work, “Li Hung Chang<\/em>.”
\nDecember 15<\/strong>, “The religion of China<\/em>,” Mrs. H. F. Metcalf; club work, “Ancestral worship<\/em>.”
\nJanuary 4, 1904<\/strong>, “Chinese education, old school, progressive school<\/em>,” Miss Whitten, club work, “Chinese proverbs<\/em>.”
\nJanuary 19<\/strong>, “Home life in China<\/em>,” Miss Chadwick; club work, “Chinese etiquette<\/em>.”
\nFebruary 2,<\/strong> “The Chinese in America<\/em>,” Miss Houston’s club work, “The Chinese question<\/em>.”
\nFebruary 16<\/strong>, “Roman Catholic missionaries and their work<\/em>,” Mrs. R. A. Allyn, club work, “John of Montecorvino<\/em>.”
\nMarch 1<\/strong>, “Protestant missions<\/em>,” Miss Heywood; club work, “Robert Morrison Wells Williams<\/em>.”
\nMarch 15<\/strong>, “The Chinese attitude toward outside influences<\/em>.” Mrs. W. C. Hammond; club work, “The Emperor,<\/em>” “The Empress Dowager<\/em>.”
\nMarch 29<\/strong>, “China in revolution.” Miss Gertrude Chadwick<\/em>; club work, “Incidents of the boxer uprising<\/em>.”
\nApril 5<\/strong>, “Russian advance in China<\/em>,” Mrs. N. P. Avery; club work, “Current events in China<\/em>.”
\nApril 19<\/strong>, “How can China be brought into her place among the nations and fitted to fill it?<\/em>” Miss Metcalf; club work, discussion of the paper.
\nApril 26<\/strong>, business meeting.<\/p>\n

Adapted from The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

04 October 1903 The Qui Vive Club is to take up as their topic for the year “China.” Their program is quite exhaustive, and in their work they are assisted by a list of 75 or 100 books printed in each topic leaflet. Mrs. Robert A. Allyn is president of the club, Miss Katharine Skinner […]<\/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\/6040"}],"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=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}