Datebook 1923: Sunday, February 25, 1923

Beautiful, bright, cool & breezy. Arose 7:15 A.M. Breakfast with H.H. Studied. Washed, shaved etc. To Old South with Steinkraus, Gamer and Allengen of Union Theological. Dinner alone at Walton's. To 72. Nap. Studied & collected thoughts for evening. To Brighton with Gospel Team. Turrell led league. Learey, I, Conley & Cameron took charge of evening meeting. It did not go as well as usual. To Parsonage. Pancakes etc. Talked. Marked some more of Hexateuch. To bed 1:45 A.M. Thankful for friends.

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For those who, like me, are not familiar with it,

The Hexateuch ("six scrolls") is the first six books of the Hebrew Bible: the Torah (Pentateuch) and the book of Joshua.[1] (taken from Wikipedia)

The Wikipedia article goes on to describe in detail the scholarly uses of this collection of texts.

I wonder why the meeting didn't go as well "as usual"?

I'm guessing that Brighton, where the Gospel Team went to perform, is the Brighton Community Methodist Church (but I'm not sure since he doesn't name the church). It was founded in 1903, so it could be the one.

Brighton Community Methodist Church
From Google

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband, son, cousin, nephew and friend. This is the fifth installment of Date Book, covering 1923 (the first four cover 1919-1922). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1923 to January 1, 2017, for instance--with one entry per day.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford.

And this year, because Stanford is living in Boston, attending Boston University School of Theology, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these annotations, I hope to convey a sense of Stanford's life and times. And of course, I'm also hoping to give his descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1923

Sunday, February 25, 1923

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