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A '''final club''' is a single-sex [[undergraduate]] social club at [[Harvard College]]. There are currently ten such clubs at Harvard. The male clubs are the Fox, Spee, Owl, Delphic, A.D., Fly, Phoenix-S.K., and [[Porcellian_Club|Porcellian]]; all were established a century or more in the past. The female clubs are the Bee and the Isis; they are fairly new - the Bee was founded in 1991 and the Isis was founded in 2000. Almost all of the clubs have a privately-owned clubhouse.

In [[Greek mythology]], '''Oreads''' (ὄρος, "mountain") were a type of [[nymph]] that lived in mountains. They were associated with [[Aphrodite]].

=== Oreads ===

Final clubs are not to be mistaken for [[fraternities]] or [[sororities]]. None of the final clubs provide housing to their members, nor are they affiliated with national organizations (anymore, that is -- the Spee began its life as Zeta Psi and the A.D. and Fly as [[Alpha Delta Phi]]; other remnants remain as well). Long affiliated with and supported by Harvard, the male final clubs were ordered in 1984 to either go coeducational or go private. The clubs privatized and since then have maintained themselves beyond university regulation.

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Historically, however, there was far more differentiation among the clubs. Harvard College freshman hoped to join the [[Hasty Pudding]] social club. Going into their senior year, aspiring students hoped to join either the A.D. or Porcellian, the original two final clubs. In the interim, their hope was to gain admittance to one of the "waiting clubs," as the other clubs were known.

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Each fall the clubs hold "punch season" where aspiring sophomores and juniors try to get "punched," or elected as new members of the clubs. The clubs have an undergraduate membership of around fifty apiece, amounting to a small percentage of the undergraduate population. The clubs have varying restrictions on exclusivity. Some final clubs, like the Fox, often hold parties and open their doors to women and occasionally even male guests of members. Others, like the A.D., have only in recent history opened their doors to female guests of members. Still others, like the Porcellian, never allow non-members in -- in the Porcellian's case, this means that they never allow non-members past a small room by the entrance called "the bicycle room."

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==External Links==

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* [http://www.isisclub.net The Isis Club]

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