The Komensky Club 1914
Title
The Komensky Club 1914
Subject
The 1914 Komensky Club entry for the Cornhusker
Description
A photograph of the club with a list of first and second semester officers. A brief overview of the clubs founding and present activities. Šárka Hrbková is in the bottom row, the fifth person from the left.
Source
Special Collections, Love Library
Date
1914
Original Format
Page from the 1914 Cornhusker
Text
In the year 1903 the first of the Komensky Clubs was organized at the University of Nebraska. The name of Bohemia’ s famous educational reformer, John Amos Komensky, or Comenius, was decided upon as the most appropriate title for the club. Immediately after organization the members of this club began corresponding with students at other universities and colleges in the west, with a view to organizing similar clubs at their respective schools. Today there are twenty-seven clubs located at different universities, colleges and in cities where there are no such schools. Clubs are located at such schools as the State Universities of Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, and Nebraska, Northwestern University, Ames and Coe Colleges in Iowa, and State Normal Schools in Texas. These clubs have formed a federation known as the “Educational Association of Komensky Clubs.”
The Komensky Club at Lincoln directs and plans the activities of those clubs which have not the facilities for literary and historical studies.
The official organ of these associated education clubs, the “Komensky,” a monthly publication, is issued from the University.
Almost two years ago the clubs, under the leadership of the local chapter, undertook to raise a fund for the purpose of erecting a statue of Komensky on the University campus in Lincoln. About $1,500 has already been actually collected, exclusive of promised subscriptions.
The prosperous growth of these Bohemian educational clubs is a matter of great pride to the local club, which is constantly active in earnest work for the advancement along literary lines of the second and third generations of Bohemian-Americans.
The Komensky Club at Lincoln directs and plans the activities of those clubs which have not the facilities for literary and historical studies.
The official organ of these associated education clubs, the “Komensky,” a monthly publication, is issued from the University.
Almost two years ago the clubs, under the leadership of the local chapter, undertook to raise a fund for the purpose of erecting a statue of Komensky on the University campus in Lincoln. About $1,500 has already been actually collected, exclusive of promised subscriptions.
The prosperous growth of these Bohemian educational clubs is a matter of great pride to the local club, which is constantly active in earnest work for the advancement along literary lines of the second and third generations of Bohemian-Americans.
