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词条 Dining club
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  1. United Kingdom

  2. United States

  3. List of dining clubs

  4. Fictional

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

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A dining club (UK) or eating club (US) is a social 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

A dining club differs from a gentlemen's club in 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 that one was a member of either OUCA or CUCA, the Conservative Associations at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively.{{cn|date=February 2016}} Others may require applicants to pass an interview, or simply pay a membership fee.

Early dining clubs include The Pitt Club, The Bullingdon Club, and The 16' Club.

United States

In the United States, similar clubs that limit membership to students of a particular university are referred to as eating clubs. Replaced largely by the modern fraternity and sorority system in the United States, eating clubs are now limited to a few colleges and universities, most notably Princeton University.

An eating club is a social club found in American universities. 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 as bicker clubs[1] because of the process of bickering over which applicants to accept as members.[2] Replaced largely by the modern fraternity and sorority system, eating clubs are now limited to a few colleges and universities, most notably Princeton University, Stanford University, Davidson College, Mount Olive College, and Reed College.

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 Penn Club of New York City that has reciprocity with India House Club at 1 Hanover Square.

List of dining clubs

This list is incomplete.Date of founding in brackets{{col-begin}}{{col-break}}18th-century foundations
  • Kit-Cat Club (before 1705)
  • Beefsteak Club (c.1705)
  • October Club (1711-1714)
  • Society of Knights of the Round Table (1720)
  • Society of Dilettanti (1732)
  • Divan Club (1744-1746)
  • Friendly Brothers of St Patrick (before 1750)
  • The Club (1764)
  • Lunar Society (1775-1813)
  • Bullingdon Club (1780)
  • Beaver Club (1785-1830s)
{{col-break}}19th-century foundations
  • Nobody's Friends (1800)
  • Canada Club (1810)[3]
  • Trinity College Dublin Dining Club, London (c.1810)[4]
  • Grillions (1812)
  • Geological Society Dining Club (1824)
  • Raleigh Club (1827)
  • Pitt Club (1835)
  • Blue Boar Club (1851)
  • X-club (1864-1893)
  • Myrmidon Club (1865)
  • The Whitefriars Club (1868)[5]
  • The 16' Club (c.1875)
  • Canadian Club network (c.1880)[6][7]
  • United and Cecil Club (as the Constituency Union in 1881)
  • Omar Khayyám Club (1892)
  • Castaways' Club (1895)
  • Ye Cherubs (Queens', Cambridge) (1895)
  • The Chinese Club (1897)
  • Stock Exchange Luncheon Club (1898-2006)
{{col-break}}20th- and 21st-century foundations
  • Nova Scotia Club (1900)
  • Coefficients (1902)
  • Square Club (1908)
  • Chatham Dining Club (1910)
  • The Other Club (1911)
  • Cercle de l'Union interalliée (1917)
  • Pudding Society (?early 20th century)
  • Ratio Club (1949-1958)
  • Piers Gaveston Society (1977)
  • Strafford Club (1995)
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Fictional

  • The Thursday Club, a monthly dining club, features in the novel The Three Hostages by John Buchan.
  • The Twelve True Fishermen is the name of a fictional club in the eponymous short story by G. K. Chesterton in which his detective Father Brown solves the riddle of the disappearance of the club's silver.
  • The annual dinner of The Ten for Aristology is the scene of a murder in the 1960 Nero Wolfe story Poison à la Carte,

See also

  • Eating clubs at Princeton University
  • Final clubs at Harvard
  • Gentlemen's club
  • Stanford Eating Clubs
  • Supper club

References

1. ^Admitting the problem - The Daily Princetonian
2. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/education/edlife/princeton.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print More Than a Meal Plan - New York Times]
3. ^ {{cite web |url= http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/united_kingdom-royaume_uni/consular_services_consulaires/canadian_clubs_cannadiens.aspx?lang=eng |title= Canadian Clubs and Organisations in the UK |date= 2015-01-06 |publisher= Government of Canada }}
4. ^http://www.tcddiningclublondon.co.uk
5. ^http://www.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.
6. ^ {{cite news |date= March 1893 |publisher= Toronto Globe |title= Canadian Club of Hamilton }}
7. ^ {{cite web |url= http://www.canadianclub-yamaskavalley.ca/about |title= About the Canadian Club |publisher= The Canadian Club of Yamaska Valley |date= 2011 }}

External links

  • Discussion on "What are eating clubs"
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050828210438/http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/eating_clubs.html Article from The Princeton Companion on formation of Princeton's eating clubs]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20051025030312/http://etc.princeton.edu/Campus/chap11.html Historical article on Princeton's eating clubs]
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