- Pitt Club
The University Pitt Club, popularly referred to as the Pitt Club, is a socially exclusive, invitation-only club for male students at the
University of Cambridge Fact|date=June 2007 who, for the most part, attended certain public schoolsFact|date=June 2007.This is not, however, a criterion for membership. It was founded in1835 and named in honour ofWilliam Pitt the Younger Fact|date=June 2007, who had been a student atPembroke College, Cambridge . The Club has premises at 7a Jesus Lane. It used to occupy the whole of a prominent neo-classical building, however, as a result of financial difficulties in the 1990s, the Club now occupies only the upper floors of the building, renting out the ground floor to a restaurant calledPizza Express [ [http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/councillors/agenda/2005/0119plan_files/4_1.pdf cambridge.gov.uk] ] , and the basement to a nightclub called [http://www.cambridgedjcollective.co.uk/ Po Na Na] , which has since closed but is due to be re-opened in early 2009 by Cambridge based Radio Presenter Marcus Deaves [ [http://www.varsity.co.uk/archive/647.pdf varsity.co.uk] ] . The Club is reached through a side door (the one on the left while facing the front entrance)Fact|date=June 2007. The equivalent club at theUniversity of Oxford isThe Gridiron Club , atSt David's University College The 16' Club, at theUniversity of St. Andrews theKate Kennedy Club and atHarvard thePorcellian Club . The Pitt Club maintains reciprocal relations with theOxford and Cambridge Club and Oxford's Gridiron Club [ [http://www.oxfordandcambridgeclub.co.uk/listofcountries.php The O&C Club] ] .The current president of the Pitt Club is the renown History of Art Professor David Watkin. The other trustees are Tim Steel, Jeremy Norman and Lord Edward Spencer Churchill.
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