Datebook 1923: Tuesday, May 22, 1923

Overcast in A.M. Cleared and bright in P.M. Arose 6 A.M. Studied for T.A.P. quiz. Class 8:30-9:30 A.M. Studied. Dinner with H.H. at Arlington. Walked about town. Bought spring-binder. Class and chapel 2:15-3:35 P.M. Studied. Supper. Walk with H.H. to see Leviathon [sic]. Studied. To bed 12 P.M. Thank God for all blessings.

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For those of you who (like me) didn't know what a spring-binder was, here is a definition:

a loose-leaf binder having a shaped spring-metal back that opens to receive or release the contents when the covers are opened wide and pressed back (MW Dictionary)

Leviathan--what the brothers went to see this day--was the S.S. Leviathan, a ship that started out German and ended up American, having been seized by the U.S. Navy during WWI. Here is a story about the ship in Wikipedia. It was in dry dock in Boston in May of 1923, preparing for its maiden voyage on July 4th of that year as a commercial ocean liner. Below is a picture of it at Boston.

From Ship Scribe

And check out this YouTube video of photos of the ship:

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

Tuesday, May 22, 1923

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