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  The Athenæum Club in Pall Mall, London
He was recommended to the Athenaeum's committee by John Nash, who was a member of the newly formed club but was too busy to undertake the work himself.
The club benefited from its first secretary's inventiveness just before he died when in 1886 it became one of the earliest buildings ever to be lit by electric light, using its own generator until a public supply became available in the mid 1890s.
The club was founded as a meeting place for men who enjoy the life of the mind.
www.athenaeumclub.co.uk   (1055 words)

  
  Athenaeum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Athenaeum, Paris—an academic institution that existed in the early nineteenth century.
The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, which hosts more than one hundred dinner and lecture events with distinguished speakers each year at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
The Athenaeum in Cincinnati, Ohio, succeeded by St.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athenaeum   (148 words)

  
 Athenaeum Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Athenaeum Club is a gentlemen's club standing at 107 Pall Mall, London, at the corner of Waterloo Place.
It was long regarded as a clergymen's club; it once boasted Bishops, Cabinet Members, and Lords amongst its members.
For many years The Athenaeum Club was widely seen to represent the peak of London's clubland for the public intellectual.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athenaeum_Club   (342 words)

  
 Images of the Athenaeum, London, by Decimus Burton
This club was established in 1823 by John Wilson Croker, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and others for individuals known for scientific, literary or artistic accomplishments as well as patrons of these endeavors.
The club library was thought to be one of the best in London.
Return to the Introduction and Index on gentleman's clubs.
www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/england/london/burton/athenaeum.html   (195 words)

  
 Deyo Enterprises   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By the middle of this week, though, the repercussions of the club's rejection of businessman Tony Beddison were rippling closer and closer to its core.
Already a member of the Australian Club, his nomination to the Melbourne Club by a former BHP chairman, Sir James Balderstone, seemed to assure him the icing on the cake of his credentials.
A source outside the club said that just before the vote, with the unpaid creditor story having been trumped, "they were peddling anything these outrageous claims about whether he was Jewish or not".
www.millennium-ark.net /stans.files/Cosmic_Conspiracy_items/The_Melbourne_Club.html   (1591 words)

  
 Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Clubs - Athenaeum Club
ATHENAEUM CLUB, Waterloo-place, Pall Mall, was established in 1823...
Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall – Eminence in, or patronage of, science, literature, or any branch of the fine arts, are the qualifications for membership of this club.
No London club ranks higher than the Athenaeum, which was founded in 1824 and has a membership limited to 1,200.
www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/athenaeumclub.htm   (530 words)

  
 Sports Clubs
The Archives have the Reports of AGMs of many of these clubs which taken with the accounts of the fund-raising social events and concerts provide a fascinating insight into sporting life in the city in the 19th century.
The Limerick Boat Club was founded at the Athenaeum in 1870: Report of meeting held at the Athenaeum for the purpose of forming a new boat club.
Club held socials at the Athenaeum in 1887,1888, when Mr W.L. Stokes was Captain of the Club.
www.limerick.com /theroyal/thebook/sports-clubs.html   (775 words)

  
 Athenaeum : Hommage
The Boston Athenaeum is an independent membership and research library with special collections in Boston history, New England state and local history,...
Athenaeum Hotel endeavour to bring warm and homely touches to the guest rooms which offer the most modern in-room technology, whilst retaining the traditional feel of a London hotel.
Welcome to The Athenaeum Theatre and Performing Arts Center Built in 1911, The Athenaeum building was conceived as a recreational center which would serve the...
www.hommage.ca /?Top=Athenaeum   (659 words)

  
 Social and Philanthropic Organizations
The aim of the Canadian Club of Montreal is, in its own words, "fostering patriotism by encouraging the study of the institutions, history, arts, literature and resources of Canada, and an appreciation of matters of interest and concern to Canadians".
The Club was founded in 1905 by two former members of the Canadian Club of Toronto (founded in 1897, following the inception of the Canadian Club movement in Hamilton in 1893) and its first invited speaker was the novelist Jerome K. Jerome.
The Montreal Tandem Club was established in 1882 to foster tandem winter driving in the city.
www.archives.mcgill.ca /resources/guide/vol2_3/gen10.htm   (2988 words)

  
 The Athenaeum Club House   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The inspiration to build the Club House came in 1907 when fire broke out in the Pepper Building as one hundred members were gathered on the fifth floor for their annual business meeting.
The Club House was constructed at a cost of $33,000, a sum raised by its five hundred enterprising members.
The Kansas City Musical Club presented a rental proposal to the Athenaeum for use of the balcony overlooking the Auditorium before the construction of the Club House was completed.
www.kcathenaeum.org /clubhouse01.html   (933 words)

  
 EDWARD LAW LONDON CLUBS
One of the most abundant classes of crests is that of the London clubs, which were such a feature of the life of middle and upper class gentlemen through the Victorian era.
These clubs, which were intended to be a home from home for the well-to-do, provided crested stationery and envelopes for the use of members, a factor in their abundance.
The club was founded in 1824 for the association of men of eminence and attainment in science, art and literature, and their patrons.
homepage.eircom.net /~lawe/LONDONCLUBS.htm   (557 words)

  
 Q Club Hotels - Athenaeum Apartments, London
Originally built during the Edwardian era the building was transformed in 1995 into The Athenaeum Court.
This luxurious art deco style apartment block was run very much along the lines of a private club.
An infamous Hollywood reporter once commented the "more stars were to be seen in London's Athenaeum than in the world famous Polo Lounge of the Beverley Hills Hotel" and nicknamed the hotel "Tinsel Town on the Thames".
www.andrewharpertravel.com /show.dll/property.main?code=athenaeum   (180 words)

  
 Civic Groups
Athenaeum Club is a literary club which meets in various homes in Wynnewood on the first Friday of the months of October through May at 2 PM.
The club meets in various homes of its membership on the second Monday of the months of September through April at 7:00 PM.
The Round-Up Club is organized to encourage ownership of horses, to foster the pioneer spirit of Oklahoma, and to promote goodwill and cooperation of the various communities throughout the state.
www.wynnewoodokla.com /civic.htm   (779 words)

  
 History of The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College   (Site not responding. Last check: )
London's famous Athenaeum was founded in 1823 "for the association of individuals known for their scientific and literary attainments, artists of eminence in any class of the fine arts, and noblemen and gentlemen distinguished as liberal patrons of science, literature, or the arts."
Founding CMC trustee Donald McKenna envisioned a "student-faculty club or athenaeum" in a memorandum written to the board of trustees on the 12th of January 1968, where students and faculty would have the opportunity to come together as colleagues to share ideas, debate issues, and build friendships.
The Athenaeum programs soon outgrew the Columbia Avenue premises, so the decision was made to build a bigger facility in the middle of campus that would be a focal point for student activity at CMC.
www.mckenna.edu /mmca/his1.asp   (1059 words)

  
 Athenaeum Club - Hobart, Tasmania
The Athenaeum Club is a Social and Business Networking Club
The name "Athenaeum" is from the Goddess of Wisdom and the Arts, "Athena".
Copyright © Athenaeum Club, 29 Davey Street Hobart, Tasmania 7000
www.athenaeumhobart.com.au   (75 words)

  
 Club chiefs' doubts on Demetriou - realfooty.com.au
The football discussion centred largely on the clubs' disenchantment with the efforts of the AFL to introduce favourable draft concessions for Sydney and Brisbane in the name of football development into those states.
Jackson's successor was one of the topics the club presidents had hoped to raise with AFL chairman Ron Evans, a strong Demetriou supporter who was largely responsible for recruiting him into the AFL, before the next scheduled commission meeting with the clubs in July.
McGuire, the unofficial chairman who communicated with all those presidents who did not attend, was understood to be one of the majority who have become increasingly disenchanted with the AFL bureaucracy's handling of hefty football issues such as the draft and the tendency to set up sub-committees but then disregard the process.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/05/27/1022243311736.html   (516 words)

  
 The Athenaeum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
According to the Club Leaders Forum, The Athenaeum stands among the top four percent of America's 5,000 private clubs in terms of perceived excellence.
The club has grown with the Institute but remains faithful to the vision of its founders, whose purpose was to promote social, cultural, and intellectual exchange.
The club also has several guest rooms and suites that house members or their sponsored guests and visitors to the Institute.
www.its.caltech.edu /~ath   (225 words)

  
 Reciprocal Clubs available to Members of The Auckland club
The Athenaeum Club offers gymnasium, squash and golf practice facilities as well as pool side dining.
Founded in 1865, the Tanglin Club is a refuge surrounded by lush greenery in the heart of the shopping area.
St James Club, London, UK Situated in the heart of London's West End, St. James is an easy stroll to the Palace and excellent shopping.
www.aucklandclub.co.nz /reciprocal_clubs.html   (419 words)

  
 London Press Club   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The directors of the London Press Club are very pleased to report that Steve Oram, Director of the Newspaper Publishers' Association since 1997, has agreed to join the Board of the London Press Club.
London Press Club member Nina Kent, widow of the New Zealand-born cartoonist John Kent, presents an original 'Varoomshka' drawing from the Guardian to Carrick Lewis, President of the New Zealand National Library Association in a ceremony organised jointly by the LPC and the New Zealand Press Club.
We are grateful to Peter Isaac, President of the National Press Club of New Zealand, and Mark Bryant, Secretary of the LPC, for coordinating this event.
www.londonpressclub.co.uk /news.shtml   (535 words)

  
 Rathskeller - History
The new club house was an immediate success, and by the beginning of 1896, there were over 500 members of the new club.
Today however, the Athenaeum, with this rich heritage, is still active and is receiving renewed attention.
The Athenaeum Restaurant (The Rathskeller) is the city's oldest restaurant (since l894) still in operation today.
www.rathskeller.com /history.htm   (714 words)

  
 WHMC-Columbia--Missouri Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Records, 1932-1986 (C3801)--INVENTORY
Records of the state organization and member clubs of an association to improve the status of fl women in the home and community.
From an original core of seven clubs in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Jefferson City, the association grew to include 2000 women in ninety clubs throughout the state by the 1930s.
A project to write the history of the organization and its member clubs and to solicit club records was initiated in the 1980s with incomplete results.
www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/3801.html   (724 words)

  
 Woman's Club of Wisconsin.
In 1920 the Athenaeum formally merged with the WCW, but the name was still used for renting the building to outside clubs and parties.
The Woman’s Club of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc. was founded to assume many of the duties previously handled by the welfare committee.
This book chronicles the Club’s history and gave birth to the project undertaken by the history committee to gather and organize the Club’s records so that members of the Club, as well as the community, can have access to the history of this pioneering organization.
www.uwm.edu /Library/arch/findaids/uwmmss221.htm   (1432 words)

  
 Heversham, Cumbria - Societies and Clubs
This page details the major societies and clubs in the Heversham and Leasgill area, as well as some a little further afield but still of interest to local people.
Held each year at the The Athenaeum at Christmas time.
If you have details of any other clubs in the Heversham/Leasgill area to be posted here please contact us with the details.
www.heversham.org /heversham_soc_clubs.html   (161 words)

  
 Member Details
Regarded as the most intellectually elite of all the London clubs, The Grade I Listed Athenaeum Club has been a London landmark for the past 170 years.
It is the intention of Club to remove these paint coatings in the near future and during this contract, extensive paint stripping and lime wash sampling work was undertaken.
The Club maintains a very strict set of house rules and close liaison with the House Manager and his staff was necessary at all times to avoid disruption to the Club's operation.
www.stone-federationgb.org.uk /details.asp?code=TRIT   (448 words)

  
 Athenaeum Intercontinental Hotel, Athens, Greece - Special Discount Hotel Rates
The Athenaeum Inter-Continental Hotel in Athens is centrally located for easy access to the city's business and shopping districts and to the airport.
Club Inter-Continental combines the benefits of an exclusive club with the facilities and all-round hospitality of a deluxe hotel.
The Athenaeum Inter-Continental Athens' reputation for sheer professionalism in the organisation of business meetings, conferences and banquets is well established.
www.hotelsathens.net /intercontinental   (950 words)

  
 Donor Clubs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To show appreciation to leadership donors for their important contributions to RIT, four new donor recognition levels have been established this year: the 1829 Club, the Chairman's Club, the Trustees' Club and the Ambassadors' Club.
RIT is especially proud to introduce the 1829 Club, which draws its name from the year RIT was founded as the Rochester Athenaeum, thus commemorating RIT's rich heritage and recognizing the highest level of giving.
RIT extends special gratitude to donors in these new club levels for their generous support during the past year and thanks them for leading the way in building a strong tradition of excellence that will benefit students for generations to come.
www.rit.edu /~umagwww/Publications/1997AnnualReport/don_club.html   (323 words)

  
 Soul of a Bishop - CHAPTER THE SIXTH
ITHOUT any sense of transition the bishop found himself seated in the little North Library of the Athenaeum club and staring at the bust of John Wilson Croker.
Whether an actual vision had made his conviction, or whether the conviction of his own subconscious mind had made the dream, seemed but a small matter beside the conviction that this was indeed the God he had desired and the God who must rule his life.
He decided to take one of the Reform club bedrooms for two or three days, and wire to Princhester that he was "unavoidably delayed in town," without further explanations.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/SoulofaBishop/chap6.html   (4237 words)

  
 This is The West Country | CommuniGate | Falmouth Camera Club
The meetings are relaxed and friendly and visitors are always welcome to attend any meeting which interests them.
Activities range from illustrated talks given by visiting speakers to photographic exhibition and competition by the club members; there are also interclub competitions.
New members are welcome to join the club, for further details please ring any of the club officials.
www.communigate.co.uk /twc/falmouthcameraclub   (86 words)

  
 Athenaeum Club Records - UF Special and Area Studies Collections
The Athenaeum Club, named after the Greek Goddess Athena, goddess of wisdom, art, industries and warfare, was founded in 1905 by President Andrew Sledd and several faculty members to provide a forum where faculty could exchange ideas and opinions concerning contemporary issues.
Sledd served as first president, Edward R. Flint, professor of chemistry, as vice-president, and Charles L. Crow, professor of romance languages, as secretary.
Club by-laws stipulate that each member must submit a paper and lead a discussion period with the intent to deposit all essays in the library or submit them for publication.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/archome/MS55.htm   (272 words)

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