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The Fox Club is a social club meant to bring together people of high standards and congenial tastes, to promote good fellowship, and to form lasting friendships. The Fox Club is one of the eight originally male-only final clubs at Harvard University. The Club was founded in 1898 by a group of six undergraduates of Harvard University. Originally known as the ''Digamma Club'', the name Fox and the Club’s symbol, a rampant 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 the 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. With the distinctive trademark on the front door, one can spot it on a stroll to Harvard Stadium from campus. == Notable members == *T. S. Eliot, poet, dramatist and literary critic. *Van Wyck Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, literary critic, and biographer. *Hermann Hagedorn, American author, poet, and biographer.〔Hermann Hagedorn〕 *King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal from 1972 to 2001. *William Richards Castle, Jr., one of the six founders of the club. U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Assistant Secretary of State, and Under Secretary of State. *Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See 〔Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.〕 *John Davis Lodge, former actor and politician, congressman, 79th Governor of Connecticut, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Argentina, and Switzerland 〔John Davis Lodge〕 *Bill Gates, Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Software Architect 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.〔("Maxwell Perkins: editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Dawn Powell, and Thomas Wolfe" ), ''Library of America'', Monday, September 20, 2010]〕 Hemingway dedicated ''The Old Man and the Sea'' to Perkins.〔Perkins, Maxwell Evarts; Baughman, Judith, (''The sons of Maxwell Perkins: letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and their editor'' ), University of South Carolina Press, 2004]. Cf. (p. xxvii )〕 *Bliss Perry, an American literary critic, writer, editor, and teacher〔Bliss Perry〕 *Peter J. Gomes, American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church〔Peter J. Gomes〕 *David Herbert Donald, American historian〔David Herbert Donald〕 *Paul A. Freund, was an American jurist and law professor〔Paul A. Freund〕 *Robert G. Albion, Harvard's first professor of Oceanic History〔Robert G. Albion〕 *Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo, Spanish Filipino painter and businessman 〔Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo〕 *Jaime Zobel de Ayala, Filipino businessman, philanthropist and art photographer, chairman emeritus of Ayala Corporation 〔Jaime Zobel de Ayala〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fox Club (Harvard)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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