The Centenary of the Wistar Party

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Excerpt from The Centenary of the Wistar Party: An Historical Address Fellow Members and Guests: This evening's gathering commemorates the Centenary of the Wistar Party, a purely voluntary association of twenty-four gentlemen, without a charter, without a club house, without even a club room or club possessions, but held together by the mysterious and potent charm of a distinguished name, and a fixed rule that eligibility to membership requires an existing membership in The American Philosophical Society. With no purpose save that of genial hospitality to citizen and stranger, depending for its expression upon purely private household entertainment, extended in turn by a single host, subject to the simplest rules, the Association has exerted a quiet but definite influence upon the intellectual and social life of Philadelphia. It has become an institution without being an institute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.