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Adining club(UK) oreating club(US) is asocial group,usually requiring membership (which may, or may not be available only to certain people), which meets for dinners and discussion on a regular basis. They may also often have guest speakers.
United Kingdom
editA dining club differs from agentlemen's clubin that it does not have permanent premises, often changing the location of its meetings and dinners.
Clubs may limit their membership to those who meet highly specific membership requirements. For example, the Coningsby Club requires members to have been a part of eitherOUCAorCUCA,the Conservative Associations at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively.[1]Others may require applicants to pass aninterview,or simply pay a membership fee.
Early dining clubs include thePitt Club,theBullingdon Club,andthe 16' Club.
United States
editIn theUnited States,similarsocial clubsare calledeating clubs.Eating clubs date to the late 19th and early 20th centuries and are intended to allow college students to enjoy meals and pleasant discourse. Some clubs are referred to asbicker clubs[2]because of the process of bickering over which applicants to accept as members.[3]Replaced largely by themodern fraternity and sorority system,eating clubs are now limited to a few colleges and universities, most prominently atPrinceton University,though other universities includingStanford University,Davidson College,theUniversity of Mount Olive,andReed Collegehave the presence of eating clubs.
Dining clubs often have reciprocity with other dining clubs across the nation or even worldwide. Some are able to arrange reciprocity with other private social clubs with more facilities besides dining such as overnight guest rooms and a gym. Examples of such social clubs include thePenn Club of New York City,which has reciprocity with the India House Club at1 Hanover Square.
List of dining clubs
editThis list is incomplete. Date of founding in brackets.
Fictional
edit- The Thursday Club,a monthly dining club, features in the novelThe Three HostagesbyJohn Buchan.
- The Twelve True Fishermenis the name of a fictional club in the eponymous short story byG. K. Chestertonin which his detectiveFather Brownsolves the riddle of the disappearance of the club's silver.
- The annual dinner ofThe Ten forAristologyis the scene of a murder in the 1960Nero WolfestoryPoison à la Carte,
See also
editReferences
edit- ^"About".Coningsby Club.23 March 2021.Retrieved24 July2024.
- ^"Admitting the problem - The Daily Princetonian".Archived fromthe originalon 2009-01-08.Retrieved2019-03-15.
- ^More Than a Meal Plan - New York Times
- ^"Canadian Clubs and Organisations in the UK".Government of Canada. 2015-01-06.
- ^"Home".tcddiningclublondon.co.uk.
- ^http:// whitefriarsclub.org,and ‘Thursday… The annual dinner of the Whitefriar's Club was held at Radley's, Mr. Tom Hood in the chair.'London City Press,Saturday 20 February 1869, p. 3.