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| Location | 61 Prospect Ave, Princeton, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40°20′53.9″N 74°39′03.6″W / 40.348306°N 74.651000°W |
| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | Raleigh C. Gildersleeve |
| Architectural style | Norman Gothic revival |
| Part of | Princeton Historic District (ID75001143[1]) |
| Added to NRHP | 27 June 1975 |
Cap and Gown Club, founded in 1891, is an eating club at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Colloquially known as "Cap", the club is one of the "Big Four" eating clubs at Princeton (the others are The Ivy Club, University Cottage Club, and Tiger Inn).[2] Members are selected through a selective process called bicker. Sometimes known as "the Illustrious Cap and Gown Club," it was the first of the currently selective eating clubs to accept women. Though personalities of eating clubs certainly change throughout the years, Cap and Gown is described in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise as "anti-alcoholic, faintly religious and politically powerful."
Cap was the most bickered eating club in 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. It has been the most selective club since 2013, with 287 students bickering in Spring 2019, thirty-five percent of whom were offered membership.[3]
- ^ "Princeton Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ Donaldson, Scott (2001). Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse. pp. 27. ISBN 978-0-595-18170-4.
- ^ "Admittance rate to bicker clubs drops by seven".