Fox Club
| Fox Club | |
|---|---|
| F | |
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| Founded | 1898 Harvard University |
| Type | Final club |
| Affiliation | Independent |
| Status | Active |
| Scope | Local |
| Chapters | 1 |
| Nickname | The Fox |
| Headquarters | 44 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, Massachusetts United States |
| Website | digammaclub |
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
[edit]The Fox Club was founded in 1898 by six undergraduate students at Harvard University. It is an all-male final club.[1][2] 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.[3]
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by the college.[4][2] However, after acknowledging that this policy against final clubs violated federal law, Harvard rescinded all sanctions in 2019.[5]
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.[2] In an August 2015 vote by the club's undergraduate members, nine women were given provisional membership.[4] This vote was taken without input from the club's graduate members who revoked the nine women's provisional membership.[2][4][6]
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.[7][8]
Symbols
[edit]The club's nickname is the Fox.[1] Its symbol is an upright fox carrying the letter "F".[3]
Club house
[edit]The Fox Club house is located on 44 John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1][3] It was built in 1902 and designed by Guy Lowell, a prominent American architect who also designed the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.[9] The Fox Club house is a contributing structure in the Harvard Square National Historic District and in the local Harvard Square Conservation District.[9]
Notable members
[edit]Business and finance
[edit]- Steve Ballmer, former chief executive officer of Microsoft[10][8]
- Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[11][10][4]
- Royal Little, founder of Textron[12]
- Colman M. Mockler Jr., chairman and CEO of Gillette[13]
- Manuel Elizalde Jr., Filipino businessman and government official[14]
- Jaime Zobel de Ayala, chairman of the Ayala Corporation and Philippine ambassador to the United Kingdom[14]
Politics, government and law
[edit]- J. Sinclair Armstrong, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission[15]
- Birendra of Nepal, King of Nepal from 1972 to 2001[16][8]
- William Richards Castle Jr., one of the club's six founders, Under Secretary of State and U.S. ambassador to Japan[17]
- Daniel Arrigg Koh, Democratic nominee for Massachusetts's 6th congressional district[18][19]
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U.S. Senate and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See[20][21][4]
- John Davis Lodge, 79th governor of Connecticut, U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. ambassador to Spain, Argentina, and Switzerland[22]
- David E. McGiffert, Under Secretary of the Army and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs[23]
- Thomas M. T. Niles, U.S. ambassador to Canada, the European Union and Greece[24]
- Sinclair Weeks, U.S. Senator and 13th U.S. Secretary of Commerce[25]
Literature, publishing and the arts
[edit]- Edward Larrabee Barnes, architect[26]
- Van Wyck Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, literary critic, and biographer[27]
- T. S. Eliot, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic[28][4]
- Hermann Hagedorn, American author, poet, and biographer[29]
- Maxwell Perkins, literary editor and publisher who gave writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald their start.[30]
- Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo, painter[31][32]
Journalism and broadcasting
[edit]- Arthur Windsor "Nick" Arundel, journalist and Marine Corps officer in the Korean War[33][34]
- Henry Loomis, director of the Voice of America and president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting[35]
- Thomas Winship, editor of The Boston Globe[36][37]
Sports
[edit]- Paul Withington, college football coach[38]
- Tom Woods, All-American guard[39]
- Paul Wylie, figure skater and the 1992 Olympic silver medalist in men's singles skating.[40]
Other
[edit]- Hunt Wentworth, Chicago society figure and president of The Harvard Lampoon; president of the Fox Club, 1916–17[41]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Notes
- 1 2 3 Edwards, Sally E.; Montgomery, Asher J. (March 18, 2024). "'Cease and Desist': Cambridge Orders Harvard Final Club to Leave Residential Zone". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- 1 2 3 4 Shaw, Jonathan (July 12, 2017). "Harvard to Ban Final Clubs Outright?". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- 1 2 3 McAuley, James K. "The Men's Final Clubs | Flyby". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stanglin, Doug. "Harvard social club revokes membership for 9 women, reverts to all-male status". USA TODAY. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ↑ "Policy on Unrecognized Single-Gender Social Organizations". June 29, 2020.
- ↑ Hallemann, Caroline (July 5, 2017). "Harvard's Fox Club Is All-Male Once Again". Town & Country. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ↑ "Fox Club to Remain All-Male as Graduate Members Once Again Reject Co-Ed Proposal". The Harvard Crimson.
- 1 2 3 Ziv, Stav (July 5, 2017). "Women Not Welcome at Harvard's Fox Club, Again". Newsweek. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- 1 2 Mills Whitaker Architects (May 25, 2023). "The Fox Club – Certificate of Appropriateness Narrative" (PDF). City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- 1 2 Leibovich, Mark (December 31, 2000). "Alter Egos". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
- ↑ Seward, Zachary M (March 22, 2007). "Gates Will Address Grads". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
- ↑ The Harvard University Register. Vol. 44. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Student Council of Harvard College. 1918. p. 114 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Alison C. Douglas, Colman Mockler Married in N. Y. C." Scarsdale Inquirer. August 14, 1953 – via HRVH Historical Newspapers.
A member of the Hasty Pudding Club of 1770 and the Fox Club, as well as a member of the Harvard Club of New York
- 1 2 Lachica, Eduardo (September 1968). "A Passing Witness at Harvard University". Nieman Reports. p. 13.
The roster of members of the Fox Club, one of the 11 "final" clubs in Harvard, includes the scions of three prominent Philippine families—the two Zobels, Jose Ma. Soriano and Manuel Joaquin Elizalde Jr.
- ↑ Martin, Douglas (November 9, 2000). "J. Sinclair Armstrong, S.E.C. Chief, Dies at 85". The New York Times. p. D8. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ↑ No writer attributed (December 7, 1983). "Ex-Harvard Student to Return as King". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
- ↑ "'I have taken to the vice of Dining Clubs'". The T. S. Eliot Foundation. August 22, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2026.
Founding member William R. Castle wrote that the club 'stands primarily for friendship but not for friendship in a narrow or snobbish sense.'
- ↑ Buell, Spencer (July 7, 2017). "Harvard's Fox Club Says Girls Aren't Allowed". Boston Magazine. Retrieved October 14, 2026.
- ↑ "Dan Koh wins primary for 6th congressional district to replace Seth Moulton". GBH. September 2, 2026. Retrieved October 14, 2026.
- ↑ Gale, Mary Ellen (November 4, 1960). "Lodge at Harvard: Loyal Conservation 'Who Knew Just What He Wanted to Do'". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
- ↑ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
- ↑ John Davis Lodge
- ↑ Harvard Album. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Class of 1949, Harvard College. 1949 – via E-Yearbook.com.
Hasty Pudding, Fox.
- ↑ "Wedding announcement of Thomas Michael Tolliver Niles". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. May 14, 1967. p. 61. ProQuest 1867272873 – via ProQuest.
Harvard College where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770 and the Fox Club.
- ↑ "Fox Club, 1954 - 1957". Dartmouth Libraries Archives & Manuscripts. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ↑ Harvard Class Album. Vol. 49. 1938 – via E-Yearbook.com.
Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770: Signet Society: Fox Club.
- ↑ Hoopes, James (1997). Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture. Amherst: Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 0-87023-212-6.
- ↑ Kirsch, Adam (July 1, 2015). "The Young T.S. Eliot". Harvard Magazine.com. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
- ↑ Hermann Hagedorn
- ↑ "Maxwell Perkins: editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Dawn Powell, and Thomas Wolfe", Library of America, Monday, September 20, 2010]
- ↑ Pereda, Felipe (December 6, 2022). "Fernando Zóbel-Montojo". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ↑ Laya, Jaime (January 1, 2023). "Zobel and Luna at the Museo del Prado". Manila Bulletin. Retrieved September 13, 2024.
- ↑ Harvard Yearbook. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Yearbook Publications. 1951 – via E-Yearbook.com.
Hasty Pudding. Speakers. Fox (Vice President 1949-50).
- ↑ "Margaret Crenshaw McElroy–Arthur Windsor Arundel". The Chronicle of the Horse. Vol. 20, no. 16. December 14, 1956 – via Internet Archive.
Mr. Arundel was graduated from Harvard University in 1951 where he was a member of the Hasty-Pudding-Institute of 1770 and of the Fox Club.
- ↑ Harvard Class Album. Vol. 52. 1941 – via E-Yearbook.com.
Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770; Fox Club.
- ↑ The 1942 Harvard Senior Album. 1942 – via E-Yearbook.com.
- ↑ "Coolidge—Winship". The New York Times. May 24, 1942. p. D1. ProQuest 106442711 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ "Harvard Leader a Bridegroom. Withington Married Miss Restarick". The Boston Globe. April 19, 1911. p. 4. Retrieved September 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ The Harvard University Register. Vol. 46. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Student Council of Harvard College. 1921. p. 128 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Nessralla, Richelle (February 27, 1992). "Olympians Come Back With Medals". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
- ↑ "Student Life". The Harvard Graduates' Magazine. Vol. 25, no. 99. March 1917. p. 376 – via Internet Archive.
president of Lampoon, 1916; president of Fox Club, 1916-17.
Bibliography
- "Fox Club Undergraduate Association, Inc., Summary Screen", The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, William Francis Galvin, Secretary Of The Commonwealth, Corporations Division
External links
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