Harvards oldest student societies: the remarkable records of the Porcellian and Hasty Pudding that can place your ancestors in 1790s Cambridge
On the evening of 1 September 1795, twenty-one Harvard juniors gathered in the college room of a student named Nymphas Hatch. They were there to found a society. The declared purpose, written into the first minutes of what would become the Hasty Pudding Club, was “to cherish feelings of friendship and patriotism.” The practical requirement […]