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The original Hasty Pudding Club gives its name to two distinct entities today, Hasty Pudding Theatricals (the nation’s oldest theatrical troupe) and Hasty Pudding Club (Harvard’s oldest social organization). The Pudding was conceived in 1795 to “cultivate the social affections and...
Kind of like the Hasty Pudding itself. The veneer of camp belies the hard work that 57 undergraduates put in to perfect their garush glitter. The Pudding members mock celebrity, but they also worship it, promote it, and feed off of it. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ (HPT) show...
The club always had an element of farce. At the first gathering, 18 (or 21, depending on whose account you follow) members of the class of 1796 gathered in the dorm room of classmate Nymphas Hatch. The group decided that, at every meeting, one member would provide a pot of...
At the turn of the century, the club began holding mock debates, deciding cases such as “Dido vs. Aeneas: For Breach of Promise” and convicting administrators and students alike for crimes such as witchcraft (their pudding was too tasty to be true) and seriousness (perpetrated...
The Hasty Pudding was also Harvard’s first final club. Initiation rites, originally a force-feeding of pudding, became increasingly elaborate. During the 1873 “run,” or punch, the inductees, called “neophytes,” were forced to write long...