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.
5-597: The Hibernian Catch Club is a dining and catch musical club founded c.1680 in Dublin , Ireland by the vicars-choral of Christ Church and St. Patrick's Cathedrals. It has been referred to as the oldest surviving musical society in Europe . Membership was historically exclusive, restricted until 1770 to members of the vicars-choral. When participation was expanded in the late eighteenth century members still had to be appointed by committee, and included many prominent members of
10-533: The University of Mount Olive , and Reed College have 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 the Penn Club of New York City , which has reciprocity with
15-788: The Coningsby Club requires members to have been a part of either OUCA or CUCA , the Conservative Associations at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively. 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 . In the United States , similar social clubs are called eating clubs . Eating clubs date to
20-476: The Irish nobility, gentry, and professions. This article about a music organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dining club 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,
25-501: 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 because of the process of bickering over which applicants to accept as members. Replaced largely by the modern fraternity and sorority system , eating clubs are now limited to a few colleges and universities, most prominently at Princeton University , though other universities including Stanford University , Davidson College ,
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