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Fox Club (Harvard)

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The Fox Club is one of the eight originally male-only final clubs at Harvard University. It was founded in 1898 by a group of six undergraduate students. Originally known as the Digamma Club, the name Fox and the Club’s symbol, a fox carrying the letter "F", grew from the similarity between the letter "F" and the archaic Greek character for "Digamma", which primarily signifies the number 6. The clubhouse has three floors that serve both the undergraduate and alumni membership, as well as an underground level where club members may invite guests. The clubhouse was built in 1906 and designed by Guy Lowell, a prominent American architect who also designed the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the New York State Supreme Court Building. The building is located on 44 John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a city historic landmark or otherwise protected property.

Notable members

  • Van Wyck Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, literary critic, and biographer
  • Hermann Hagedorn, American author, poet, and biographer
  • King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal from 1972 to 2001
  • Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. senator from Massachusetts and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See
  • John Davis Lodge, former actor and politician, congressman, 79th governor of Connecticut, and U.S. ambassador to Spain, Argentina, and Switzerland
  • Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Steve Ballmer, former chief executive officer of Microsoft
  • Paul Wylie, figure skater
  • Maxwell Perkins, literary editor and publisher who gave writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald their start. Hemingway dedicated The Old Man and the Sea to Perkins.
  • Peter J. Gomes, American preacher and theologian, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church
  • David Herbert Donald, American historian
  • Paul A. Freund, American jurist and law professor
  • Robert G. Albion, Harvard's first professor of oceanic history
  • Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo, Spanish Filipino painter and businessman
  • Jaime Zobel de Ayala, Filipino businessman, philanthropist, and art photographer; chairman emeritus of Ayala Corporation

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