Cap and Gown Club founded in 1890 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.ref Members are selected through a selective process called bicker. Sometimes known as the Illustrious Cap Gown Club it was the first selective eating club to accept women. Though personalities of eating clubs certainly change throughout the years Cap and Gown is described in F. Scott Fitzgeralds This Side of Paradise as antialcoholic faintly religious and politically powerful. Today the clubs membership represents a diverse group of students with a large percentage of the membership participating in varsity or club sports. In 2011 Cap was the most bickered eating club with 204 students bickering 47 percent of whom were offered membership.
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