This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... viii it was, I suppose (looking back), in this way that I got started on the idea of writing this essay, in which I, at least, have found for the mind considerable of what one Quinney called "meat and gravy." I have made an extensive study of clubs. I collect clubs, as you may say; not in the sense ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... viii it was, I suppose (looking back), in this way that I got started on the idea of writing this essay, in which I, at least, have found for the mind considerable of what one Quinney called "meat and gravy." I have made an extensive study of clubs. I collect clubs, as you may say; not in the sense that I belong to many, but in this: that I make it a point to possess with my mind the cosmopolitan variety I have seen. One of the most winning clubs, then, in my collection is one that I picked up, so to say, in Indianapolis, the University Club there. For one gracious thing it is housed in one of those mellow, old architectural piles, a type of old time mansion specimens of which are frequently found in Indiana, which connote to the reflective mind the period of the civil war, a house which in the sentiment of its effect is like to a gentleman of the old school; and it stands on the patrician and park-like North Meridian Street in a dainty little lawn. To the original twostory, red-brick building has been added a third story perfect in its recognition of the distinction of character of the original design. Within the high ceilinged rooms of this simple, noble, one-time resins dence broods an atmosphere from out the past of old-fashioned culture. A much pleasanter place altogether, certainly more soothing, than the stately and mighty Reform Club. I was sitting in the University Club at Indianapolis, reading the paper, when a voice of hoarse timbre and of unusual volume sounded out in the hall, and a young man with a good deal of something about him entered the room. I know not exactly what name to put upon this something, perhaps you would call it "class." A young man in that he may have been anywhere between thirty-five and forty-five (or...
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