Ward-Belmont Club Rushing Rules 1947-1948

Name/Title

Ward-Belmont Club Rushing Rules 1947-1948

Entry/Object ID

2023.112

Tags

Ward-Belmont

Scope and Content

A document listing rules for the Ward-Belmont social clubs' rushing week in 1947 and 1948, which occurred in September. Nineteen rules and regulations are listed.

Context

Ward-Belmont offered ten student social clubs, similar to sororities: the Twentieth Century Club (T.C.C.), X.L., A.K. (All 'Round), Osiron, Agora, Anti-Pandora, F.F., Penta Tau, Del Vers, and Tri K. Per a Ward-Belmont club pamphlet (2023.107), "the club system was introduced here because it was felt that national sororities had no place in a school such as Ward-Belmont. It was, therefore, to supplant the sorority plan with something that offered its advantages without the obvious disadvantages, that the club system was started." Like sororities, there was a week of rushing at the beginning of the school year, and new club members participated in an initiation.

Collection

Harpeth Hall School Archives

Lexicon

Search Terms

Ward-Belmont, Clubs, Rushing, 1947, 1948, Rules