The Hasty Pudding Club is the only social club on campus that is coed and has members from all four years. Students gain membership in the club by attending a series of lunches, cocktail parties, and other gatherings—which are referred to as the punch process.

The Hasty Pudding Club is the only co-ed social institution on Harvard’s campus that accepts members from all four classes. There is no other collegiate organization quite like it in the world. On September 1st, 1795 twenty-one Juniors from Harvard College crowded into the dorm room of Nymphas Hatch and together founded the Hasty Pudding Club.

Harvard granted theatre space to the Hasty Pudding in 1876, opening the shows to a general audience. The space was a dingy little building on the edge of the athletic field that the club secretary, Theodore Roosevelt, referred to as “the shed.”

Jan 27, 2014 · The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770—comprised of The Hasty Pudding Club, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and Harvard Krokodiloes—celebrated the unveiling of its new headquarters at the historic...

Jan 30, 2018 · On Sept. 1, 1795, 21 Harvard juniors gathered in a dorm room to found The Hasty Pudding Club. The club took its name from the traditional English dessert that was lugged across Harvard Yard in a giant cast-iron pot and dished out at their meetings.

Oct 15, 2003 · The Hasty Pudding social club will soon move to its new home on Garden Street, taking over a former Harvard administrative building. After 115 years at 12 Holyoke Street, the Hasty Pudding...

Sep 8, 2009 · On this day in 1795, 21 Harvard students gathered in a dorm room and formed a secret social club to cultivate "friendship and patriotism." Members agreed to take turns providing a pot of hasty pudding for the meetings.

Oct 25, 2011 · Constructed in 1888, the stately Georgian Revival building is best known as the home of the Hasty Pudding Club and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest social club and college theater group, as well as student a cappella singing groups the Harvard Krokodiloes and Radcliffe Pitches.

Mar 17, 1992 · To many students, the Hasty Pudding Club conjures up images of wealthy prep school graduates cradling wine glasses and trading compliments about each others' parents. The Pudding's status...

The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 comprises the Hasty Pudding Club, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the Harvard Krokodiloes. Over the last two centuries, it has grown into a premiere performing arts organization, a patron for the arts and comedy, and an advocate for satire and discourse as tools for change worldwide.