Society of Fellows Dinner:
The six dinners that we have together each year, and the talks that follow, are the formal occasions of intellectual fellowship. Speakers may be Senior Fellows, Junior Fellows, or guests, and guests are sometimes from the university faculty, sometimes from outside the university.
Some of the most recent dates held and upcoming events:
- September 3, 2024
- September 22, 2024
- November 3, 2024
- February 2, 2025
- March 2, 2025
- April 13, 2025
Annual Black-tie Dinner:
The High Table aspects of the Society were most visible in the fact that our dinners were formal. At the long table, beautifully decorated and beautifully served, you could really only talk to the person on your right or the person on your left and, if you switched, you were likely to be leaving your former conversation-partner in isolation. It took us years—and the accident that remodeling at Birdwood meant that on one night we could not dine in the usual dining room—to find out that conversation went much better if we dined at tables of six or five. The custom of a break between dinner and talk and thereafter not sitting next to whoever you had been next to, was carried over from the old regime. The custom of dressing for dinner lasted until after the turn of the century.
Some of the upcoming dates:
- December 15, 2024