Fox Club
Formation1898
TypeStudent society
Location
Region served
United States
Official language
English
Websitedigammaclub.org

The Fox Club is a private all-male final club of Harvard undergraduate students founded in 1898. The Fox Club is not officially affiliated with Harvard University. It is located on John F. Kennedy Street in Harvard Square.

History

The Fox Club was founded in 1898 by six undergraduate students. Originally known as the Digamma Club, the name Fox and the club's symbol, a fox carrying the letter "F", grew from the similarity between the letter "F" and the archaic Greek character for "digamma", which primarily signifies the number 6. The clubhouse has three floors that serve both the undergraduate and alumni membership, as well as an underground level where club members may invite guests. The clubhouse was built in 1906 and designed by Guy Lowell, a prominent American architect who also designed the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the New York State Supreme Court Building. The building is located on 44 John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a city historic landmark or otherwise protected property.

All-male status

Harvard attempted to impose sanctions against members of single-gender final clubs, preventing members from holding student group leadership positions, serving as varsity athletic team captains, and from having fellowships endorsed by the college. However, after acknowledging that this policy against final clubs violated federal law, Harvard rescinded all sanctions in 2019.[1]

In 2015, the Fox Club was one of the first of Harvard's final clubs to contemplate admitting women, but only on a provisional basis by the club's undergraduate board. In an August 2015 vote by the club's undergraduate members, nine women were given provisional membership. This vote was taken without input from the club's graduate members.

In May 2019, The Harvard Crimson reported that a vote of all Fox Club graduate members had failed to reach the two-thirds affirmative majority necessary to change membership policies.[2]

Notable members

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Policy on Unrecognized Single-Gender Social Organizations". 29 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Fox Club to Remain All-Male as Graduate Members Once Again Reject Co-Ed Proposal". The Harvard Crimson.
  3. ↑ Kirsch, Adam (2015-07-01). "The Young T.S. Eliot". Harvard Magazine.com. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
  4. ↑ Hoopes, James (1997). Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture. Amherst: Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0-87023-212-6.
  5. ↑ Hermann Hagedorn
  6. ↑ No writer attributed (1983-12-07). "Ex-Harvard Student to Return as King". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  7. ↑ Gale, Mary Ellen (1960-11-04). "Lodge at Harvard: Loyal Conservation 'Who Knew Just What He Wanted to Do'". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  8. ↑ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
  9. ↑ John Davis Lodge
  10. ↑ Seward, Zachary M (2007-03-22). "Gates Will Address Grads". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  11. 1 2 Leibovich, Mark (2000-12-31). "Alter Egos". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  12. ↑ Nessralla, Richelle (1992-02-27). "Olympians Come Back With Medals". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2007-10-30.
  13. ↑ "Maxwell Perkins: editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Dawn Powell, and Thomas Wolfe", Library of America, Monday, September 20, 2010]
  14. ↑ Perkins, Maxwell Evarts; Baughman, Judith, The sons of Maxwell Perkins: letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and their editor, University of South Carolina Press, 2004]. Cf. p. xxvii

Bibliography

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