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"The First Hundred Years Of The Ivy Club 1879-1979: A Centennial History" 1979 RICH, Frederic C.

RICH, Frederic C.

[267] pp.

1979

9 3/4" x 6 1/2"

Privately printed for Members Only

w/ Ivy Club 10/15/2007 letter laid-in

This, the oldest eating club at Princeton University and the most prestigious.

Edition limited to 2000 copies

VG

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The Ivy Club, often simply Ivy, is the oldest eating club at Princeton University. It was founded in 1879 with Arthur Hawley Scribner as its first head.

Club culture
The club is described by F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise (1920) as "detached and breathlessly aristocratic". A more recent account described Ivy as the "most patrician eating club at Princeton University" where members "eat at long tables covered with crisp white linens and set with 19th-century Sheffield silver candelabra, which are lighted even when daylight streams into the windows."


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