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...CHILTON CLUB...
...city’s most exclusive women’s club, the Chilton Club, was founded in 1910. Mary Chilton, the club’s namesake, was the only Mayflower passenger to leave Plymouth and settle in Boston. The club began in response to the Mayflower Club, another women’s club but with a strong temperance majority. The founder of the Chilton, Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer wanted a club where wine and liquor would be available and where a gentleman could be invited to dine. The women who defected from the Mayflower were weary of the puritanical restrictions. When...
...recounts the naming of what social critic Cleveland Amory dubbed the “Female Somerset.” One of the founding ladies lamented to her husband that they could not find a suitable name for their Puritan alternative. “Why not the Chilton?” said the husband. “Why the Chilton?” asked the wife. “Because Mary Chilton was the first to leave the Mayflower...
...Before the Supreme Court ruling and the opening of the club to men, the Chilton kept three entryways. One front door on Commonwealth Ave. for members only, another for the members and their guests off to the side and a staff entrance in back. Soon after the club opened, railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams ’32 was barred from ever entering the club again after shoving his way through the front entrance before declaring: “I never use side entrances.” Husbands have always been invited...
...Life at the Chilton has always been about pleasant conversation and intellectual discourse. Lectures, luncheons and theatre nights are the usual. Williams describes the eccentric Eleanora Sears during a ladies’ luncheon in 1932. The subject of the conversation was the personality of Hitler. Ms. Sears finally lost her patience and demanded that someone tell her who this Hitler was. The other ladies expressed amazement that she did not know. To this she responded indignantly, “I can’t be expected to know right off the bat the names of all the sophomores...