The Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 comprises the Hasty Pudding Club, Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the Harvard Krokodiloes.
Over the last two centuries, it has grown into a premiere performing arts organization, a patron of the arts and comedy, and an advocate for satire and discourse as tools for change worldwide.
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In 1795, twenty-one Harvard juniors crowded into the dorm room of one Nymphas Hatch to establish a new on-campus society. The members pledged to maintain the Club’s secrecy and “to cultivate the social affections and cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism” amongst them. Most importantly, they mandated that “the members in alphabetical order shall provide a pot of hasty pudding for every meeting.”
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The Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the third oldest theater organization in the world, preceded only by the Comédie-Française and the Oberammergau Passion Players. Born from the Hasty Pudding Club, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals performed its first musical, Bombastes Furioso, on the auspicious evening of Friday the 13th in December 1844.
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The Harvard Krokodiloes, Harvard University’s oldest and most prestigious a cappella singing group, perform popular music from the 1920s through the 1960s. Founded at the Hasty Pudding Club in 1946, these twelve tuxedo-clad undergraduates tour the United States and the world, singing jazz, swing, ballads, and rock from America’s Golden Age.
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