February 29, 2024
VERY rare antique Harvard University H.P.C Medal fine sterling silver 1904
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You are bidding on a very rare Harvard University Hasty Pudding Club medal struck and dated 1795 which is close to the 1790 founding year of the Hasty Pudding Club. Inscribed is the name C. Barnes and the date 1904.This metal is 40.3 mm in diameter and is in the shape of an octagon. It is comprised of 28 grams of very fine sterling silver.The� Hasty Pudding Club� was founded by Nymphus Hatch, a junior at� Harvard College, in� 1790. The club is named for the traditional American dish that the founding members ate at their first meeting. The Hasty Pudding Club was originally established in� Concordia Discors� to bring together undergraduate men (it is now coed) in friendship, conversation, and enjoyment. Today it maintains few formal ties to the school, and it is one of many groups that hold membership-based social activities at Harvard.Membership in the Hasting Pudding Club (also referred to as "the Pudding") is selective and gained through a series of lunches, cocktail parties, and other gatherings, which are referred to as the "punch process". Students must be invited to the initial punch process, commonly by current members but sometimes by club alumni, in order to seek membership in the club. In the past, membership in the Pudding was obligatory to joining waiting clubs and, eventually,� final clubs. This tradition is no longer
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