Item 101: Bookplate, Ex Libris Ivy Club Princeton University, 1879
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 101
Dates
- Created: 1879
Creator
- Princeton University (Organization)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good, no issues.
Measurements:
3 9/16 in. x 4 ¼ in.
Title:
Ex Libris Ivy Club Princeton University
Description:
A bookplate of the Ivy Club at Princeton University. The bookplate features the Ivy Club with the image surrounded by Ivy. Above the image there is a ring of text surrounded by a leaf that reads “The Ivy Club, Princeton.” The Ivy Club is a club at Princeton University started by Arthur Hawley Scribner in 1879. “It is the oldest eating club at Princeton and is “still considered the most prestigious.” F. Scott Fitzgerald talked about the club in his book, “This Side of Paradise” (1920) saying it was “detached and breathlessly aristocratic.” Not too long ago, Monique P. Yagizi, said in the New York Times article, “At Ivy Club, A Trip Back to Elitism” it was the “most patrician eating club at Princeton University where members eat at long tables covered with crisp white linens and set with 19th-century Sheffield silver candelabra, which are lighted even when daylight streams into the windows.” It was one of the final clubs to exclude women, refusing to until they were sued along with the Tiger Inn and College Club by a student named Sally Frank and her lawyer Nadine Taub. The members of each class are chosen through the bicker process, a series of ten screening interviews which are followed by discussions amongst the members as to whom of the remaining to admit. Current undergraduate members host regular “roundtable dinners” featuring talks by faculty and alumni. The inaugural clubhouse was named Ivy Hall, a “brownstone building” that could be found on Mercer Street in Princeton, and it’s still there to this day. It was built in 1847 by Richard Stockton Field in 1847 for the Princeton Law School. This only lasted for five years. From when it was started, to its incorporation in 1883, it was most known as the “Ivy Hall Eating Club.” In 1883, the club bought “an empty lot on Prospect Avenue,” when it was just a dirt road. In 1884, they built a “shingle-style” clubhouse, where the Colonial Club is today. The clubhouse was refurbished and made bigger over the course of 1887 and 1888. After they relocated across Prospect Avenue about a decade later, their clubhouse was “used by Colonial before being sold and moved to Plainsboro Township, New Jersey.” The clubhouse that Ivy uses today was made by Cope and Stewardson in 1897. In 2009, the club had its largest refurbishing to date. Another part of the building was added, changing its shape from an L to a U. It was made by Demitri Porphyrios, the new wing includes a two-story Great Hall and a crypt to provide an additional study space.
Location:
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Creator
- Princeton University (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu