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Catalogue Of The Fly Club Of Harvard University 1836-1959 (SOLD)

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Catalogue Of The Fly Club Of Harvard University 1836-1959 (SOLD)[213] pp. Privately Printed for The Club 1959 8 1 2" x 5 3 4" VG Scroll Down for (8) Additional Scans: The Fly Club is a final club, traditionally "punching" (inviting to stand for election) male undergraduates of Harvard College during their sophomore or junior year. Undergraduate and graduate members participate in club activities. History Founded in 1836 as a literary society by the editors of Harvardiana, the club was granted a charter by the

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The Fly Club is a final club, traditionally "punching" (inviting to stand for election) male undergraduates of Harvard College during their sophomore or junior year. Undergraduate and graduate members participate in club activities.

History

Founded in 1836 as a literary society by the editors of Harvardiana, the club was granted a charter by the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity on March 29, 1837. It remained active until surrendering its charter in 1865. With the graduation of the members of the class of 1868, the club was discontinued until 1878, when graduate members, including Edward Everett Hale (class of 1839) and Phillips Brooks (class of 1855), initiated undergraduates from the class of 1879, to whom the old Harvard chapter charter of ΑΔΦ was restored.

In 1906, the fraternity's charter was once again surrendered, and in 1910, the organization officially adopted the name "Fly Club," its unofficial title since 1885.

Symbols

Some sources maintain that the club's name was derived by combining the "PH" from "Alpha," the "l" from "Delta," and the "i" from "Phi," to get "Phli," pronounced "Fly".

The club motto, suggested by Prof. Morris H. Morgan (class of 1881) and adopted Feb. 1902, reads DURATURIS HAUD DURIS VINCULIS, an ablative absolute construction translated as "Bonds should be lasting, not chafing or hard."

Clubhouse

Constructed in 1896, with a brick facade added in 1902, the Fly clubhouse is located at Two Holyoke Place, near Harvard Square, along the "Gold Coast" of formerly private residences that now comprise Harvard's Adams House, completed 1932. The Fly sits in front of Harvard's Lowell House (1930), across Mt. Auburn Street from the Harvard Lampoon building (1909).

Fly Club Gate

The Fly Club Gate is located along the exterior of Winthrop House. An English Baroque structure, the gate was built in 1914 by a grant from members of the Fly Club. The Fly's symbol, a "leopard rampant gardant" (known as the "Kitty"), is centered within the ironwork above the entry. Inscribed below is a dedication: "For Friendships Made in College the Fly Club in Gratitude has Built this Gate.

Following is a list of Fly Club members. Fly Club is a final club for male students at Harvard University. Member Initiated into the D.U. Club, which merged with the Fly Club in 1996, is indicated with a *.

Academia

William Gardner Choate – founder of boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall

James Bryant Conant* – 26th President of Harvard University

Archibald Cary Coolidge – historian, Harvard professor, first director of the Harvard University Library

Charles William Eliot – 24th President of Harvard University

Samuel Eliot – historian; president of Trinity College, overseer of Harvard University, Boston Public Schools superintendent

Abbott Lawrence Lowell – historian, 25th President of Harvard University

Charles Stearns Wheeler – transcendentalist, noted as inspiration for Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

Architecture

Herbert Dudley Hale – Boston and New York City architect who designed the Fly Club's house at Two Holyoke Place.

William Robert Ware – architect, first professor of architecture at MIT, founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University

Business

Charles Francis Adams Jr. – president of the Union Pacific Railroad, president of the American Historical Association, and colonel in the Union Army

Charlie Cheever – co-founder of Quora

Albert Hamilton Gordon* – Wall Street entrepreneur, Chairman of Kidder Peabody

George H. Mifflin – president of Houghton Mifflin publishing company

Louis Kane – owner of Au Bon Pain bakery and café

Spencer Rascoff – co-founder and former CEO of Zillow

David Rockefeller* – American banker

Entertainment

Robert Carlock – screenwriter and producer

Fred Gwynne – stage, film, and television actor

Whit Stillman – writer-director and actor known for Metropolitan, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Dustin Thomason — writer-producer known for “The Rule of Four”, “Castle Rock”, “Presumed Innocent”

Law

James Barr Ames – dean of Harvard Law School (1895–1910), known for popularizing the case-study method of teaching law

James C. Carter – co-founder of law firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – Supreme Court Justice

John Codman Ropes – co-founder of law firm Ropes & Grey

Literature and journalism

Robert Charles Benchley* – humorist

James Russell Lowell – poet, critic, editor, and US ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and the Court of St. James's

Ernest Thayer – poet, author of "Casey at the Bat"

Evan Thomas – journalist and author

Owen Wister – writer, "father" of western fiction

Military

Henry L. Eustis – General in the Union Army during Civil War; dean of Lawrence Scientific School (now the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)

Lionel de Jersey Harvard* – first [collateral] descendant of John Harvard to attend Harvard College, a casualty of World War I. Harvard College's Harvard-Cambridge Fellowship (to Emmanuel College) is named in his honor.

Politics

Charles Francis Adams III – Secretary of the Navy, 1929–1932; skipper of America's Cup defender Resolute, 1920; inductee, America's Cup Hall of Fame

Edward Bell – U.S. diplomatic official involved in the decoding of the Zimmerman Telegram in World War I

Joseph Hodges Choate – lawyer and diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1899–1905

Dwight F. Davis – U.S. Secretary of War, 1925–1929; Governor General of the Philippines, 1929–1932; tennis champion

Grenville T. Emmet – U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands 1934–1937 and Austria 1937–1937

Charles Fairchild – United States Secretary of the Treasury 1887–1889; Attorney General of New York 1876-1877

Joseph Clark Grew – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan 1932–1941, oversaw the development of U.S. Foreign Service

Wickham Hoffman – U.S. Minister to Denmark 1883–1885; Colonel in the Union Army

Jared Kushner – son-in-law of Donald Trump; Senior White House Adviser and head of the White House Office of American Innovation

Tony Lake – President Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor

James Russell Lowell – U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and the Court of St. James's, poet, critic, and editor

Deval Patrick – 71st Governor of Massachusetts; quit the club in 1983

Roger Putnam – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and director of the U.S. Economic Stabilization Administration

Jay Rockefeller – U.S. Senator from West Virginia

Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 32nd President of the United States

James Roosevelt – U.S. Congressman (CA), 1955–1965

Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of the United States

William Weld – 68th Governor of Massachusetts

Religion

Phillips Brooks – clergyman, author, lyricist

Edward Everett Hale – author, historian, Unitarian minister, Chaplain to the U.S. Senate

William Appleton Lawrence – clergyman, 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts

Science

Francis Cabot – gardener, horticulturist, chairman of the New York Botanical Garden, and founder of the Garden Conservancy

Michael Clark Rockefeller – amateur anthropologist, disappeared in 1961 during an expedition in Netherlands New Guinea.

Sports

Charles Francis Adams III – skipper of America's Cup defender Resolute, 1920; inductee, America's Cup Hall of Fame; Secretary of the Navy, 1929–1932

Charles Dudley Daly – college football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Dwight F. Davis – Olympic tennis player; three-time U.S. Open doubles champion; founder of the Davis Cup; International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee

W. Palmer Dixon – two-time winner of national squash championship (1925, 1926)

Matt Freese – professional soccer player with New York City FC

Henry Thrun – professional ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks, winner of a gold medal at 2021 World Junior Championship

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I am constantly searching for aggressive chewer dog toys. So many claim to be and one look and you know they haven’t met your dog!! Our golden retriever is so sweet until he gets his claws and teeth into a new toy. We nicknamed him the shredder, as he rips his new toys to pieces. I accidentally stumbled across this toy. We have never owned a leather dog toy. The squirrel is going to give Maverick a run for his money. The edges are double sewn closed. I am very impressed with the quality of this toy for $5.75 which includes the sales price and an additional 10% off coupon. Even without those two incentives the toy is less than $8 prime. The other shapes are similar or cheaper in price and now I see a 50% off 1 toy coupon when you buy 2. What a deal and the squirrel has a squeaker inside. What I like about the squirrel is that there’s less limbs or appendages for Maverick to shred off. The bunny has ears, the raccoon has hands, the buffalo has legs, the bone and retriever stick have a rope, the bear has a neck and head that could be chewed off, similar to the fox who has a tail and snout. The squirrel looks like it would be harder to destroy! The squeaker was hard to push at first but is easier now. Maverick has a black lab sister who loves squirrels, more so than she loves toys, and I found this toy searching for squirrel toys for her. It is offered in 8 other shapes. The squirrel measures almost 8” tall by 5” wide. It’s perfect for a medium or large size dog. Based on the construction of this squirrel dog toy it looks acceptable for an aggressive chewer and won’t break the bank. It’s very affordable. Always supervise! Updates to follow at Christmas:). BTW, the squirrel did not smell bad upon opening.
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I bought 2 of these toys, one for my 9 year old great dane who isn't an aggressive chewer, and one for my 6 month old puppy who is average. In less than 10 minutes both were destroyed and my dane managed to swallow a good chunk. I wasn't surprised when they both had small holes on the ends and started pulling the stuffing out. The stuffing and squeakers were confiscated immediately, but I let them keep chewing. By the time I came back from throwing the insides away, both dogs had chewed the toys in half and my dane swallowed a chunk when he saw me coming. The puppy was going to do the same thing, but luckily we're working on his "drop" command so he was excited enough for the bigger payout and dropped it. They didn't just come apart at the seams, the whole toy ripped in half making it too easy to swallow. Neither of them are aggressive cheers and the toys didn't hold up at all. A stuffed animal toy would have lasted longer (and has any time I've allowed it). 10 minutes of playtime is probably too generous , but I'm trying to be fair. If I hadn't been right there watching them, they both would have been able to swallow the whole thing in minutes. Definitely not safe for any amount of actual chewing.
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I ordered this product for an overly excitable, destructive corgi chihuahua mix puppy, who was teething. He was a foster and managed to destroy, almost immediately, every toy I had on-hand for him, and toys I picked up at the local pet store. I was very concerned he'd swallow parts of toys, which can lead to fatal intestinal blockages, not to mention extremely high vet bills which I couldn't cover as a simple foster mom. When it arrived, I crossed my fingers that the "Seam Protection - doubled-stitched seams with heavy duty thread" would actually add "extra durability." And I was NOT disappointed! The bone shape of the toy would probably fit comfortably in the mouth of any dog or puppy, as you can see from photo #4. What's coolest about the shape of this toy is the pup can sink all of his or her teeth into it, providing comfort for the entire mouth and not just a few teeth or only one section of its mouth at a time. I was much more experienced as a kitten foster mom, and had had similar difficulties finding teething toys for kittens. This toy is thin and light weight enough that I imagine it could provide relief for little kitten mouths, also, but I didn't get to find out, as my little foster pup chose this as his #1 favorite toy and brought it with him to his forever home. I wanted to know how long it would take before he'd destroy it, though (picture 5 he'd had this Dura-Fused bone toy for a few hours short of one week, and the last photo - you'll see he'd not even undone a small portion of the seam!) Overall I would highly recommend this product for teething babies of almost any species. As far as I could tell it is indestructible. Almost seven days of constant gnawing and he'd not even taken one stitch out, created any tear or rip, let alone, gotten close to being able to swallow the squeaker (always a fear!). I imagine months later, he's still been unsuccessful at ripping/tearing this toy at all. I'd gladly buy again should I foster any dog or puppy - the company lives up to its moniker, Ethical Products, because they've produced a no-frills and apparently indestructible squeak toy which I'd have no fears of leaving with a teething puppy unsupervised. Highly recommended!
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