First General Meeting, Season 1 9 1 0- 1 1 , 

 Friday Evening, Oct. 7th, 1910 



Lyman Lee, B.A., President, presiding. 



Present, members of the Executive Council and an 

 audience numbering 75. One application for membership 

 was duly presented. 



Mr. he-e addresfsed the meeting at some length and in 

 part said that it had been the curstom of his esteeerned pre- 

 decessors to review passing events in literature, science 

 and art. While admitting that custom was a strong factor 

 in such a society he did not wish on this occasion to follow. 

 Friends would be pleased to learn that tlic society was now 

 in it Baccustomed strong position again. Tvv'o years: ago 

 things were not so briglit. Membership was sm^all and 

 funds low, to-day there arc over 250 names on the roll and 

 the finances were satisfactory. Naturally a society like 

 this wo'uld fluctuate, but with the aid of friends he hoped 

 that the society would continue in full vigor. 



Professor A. H. Young, INLA., of Trinity College, To- 

 ronto, was then introduced. His subcct being Michael 

 Angel o. 



MICHAEL ANGELO. 



The lecturer started by showing isomc of the public 

 buildings of Florence and described Michael Angelo ar5 be- 

 ing the greatest figuo-'e in the Renaissance period in all 

 Europe, spreading the spirit of individual thought. Ho 

 vvas sculptor, painter, architect, civil engineer, worker in 

 bronze and literary man all in one. In Icmper he was 

 quick in anger and equally quick to forgive. In his great, 

 compassion he took into his home men and boys to educate. 

 He lived and died a bachelor. When questioned he said 

 that he Had a mistress who would brook no rival — art — and 



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