A.D. Club

The A.D. Club is a final club established at Harvard in 1836, the continuation of a chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity existing as an honorary chapter until 1846, and then as a regular chapter until the late 1850s. At that time, owing to the prevailing sentiment against such societies, it became a strictly secret society, known among its members as the "Haidee," the name of a college boat.

The chapter surrendered its charter in 1865, and has since existed as the A.D. Club.

In 1872, the club rooms were moved from the upper story of a brick house on Palmer Street to a building on Brattle Street. These rooms were occupied until 1878, when a club-house was obtained on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Dunster Streets.

In 1900, the club moved to its present club-house at 1 Plympton St.

In accordance with the present inter-club agreement, sophomores are elected just before Christmas vacation, and "taken in" at the February dinner.

Notable members include:

Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1856)
Charles Francis Adams, III (1888)
Charles Francis Adams, IV (1932)
Robert Bacon (1880)
Robert Low Bacon (1907)
Benjamin C. Bradlee (1943)
Charles W. Eliot (1853)Charles Russell Lowell, Jr. (1854)
James P. Canning (2009)