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Distinctions.

A number of ways to maintain distinctions among the student body also emerged, including through independent elite social clubs. Among the most enduring are the Final Clubs. The oldest is the Porcellian, said to be formed in the late eighteenth century. Others also formed during the course of the nineteenth century. They were all male and all white as was the university for most of its history. The Spee was the first to accept a black member in 1965. The clubs are still all male. The first women's final club, the Bee, was founded in 1981, six years after Harvard established equal admittance policies for men and women. Notably, unlike the men's final clubs, the women's clubs do not have real estate. The men's clubs are located in different buildings around Harvard Square. This is the entrance to the Porcellian clubhouse on Massachusetts Avenue.

 

 

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