Holiday party and silent auction! December 7th | 6:00-8:00pm Tir Na Nog 1600 Arch Street Bring in the holiday cheer by joining one of our most popular events of the year! We gather in Tir Na Nog's beautiful vestibule. Tickets are $35-40 depending on graduation year (purchase here) and come with wine, beer, and an array of …
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In Franklin’s Footsteps: 275 Years at the American Philosophical Society
In Franklin's Footsteps: 275 Years at the American Philosophical Society: CANCELLED DUE TO MAINTENANCE ISSUE The American Philosophical Society and your Yale Club are dissappointed that our private tour of the Franklin Footsteps exhibit on 11/29/18 must be cancelled. All tickets will be refunded in full unless you indicate to us that you would like …
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7th Annual All Ivy Ski/Snowboard Trip
We are going to Killington, Vermont on January 18-21, 2019! The Harvard Club of Philadelphia invites all Ivy League alumni along with their spouses, significant others, friends, and guests to the 7TH ANNUAL ALL IVY SKI/SNOWBOARD TRIP. Those significant others, friends, and guests do not need any association with an Ivy League institution other than you! …
Yale-Harvard football game watch party
In the football spirit, yet? As per our annual tradition, we will join our Harvard friends to watch the Yale-Harvard game at Fox and Hound on November 17th @ noon with lots of Yale cheers, all in good fun. Also per tradition, a round of pizza goes to the team to score the first touchdown. …
David W. Blight | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Mon, November 19, 2018 7:30 p.m Parkway Central Library Cost: FREE David W. Blight’s many books of history include American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and two annotated editions of Frederick Douglass’s first two autobiographies. Blight is a professor of American History …
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Author Talk by Joanne B. Freeman (our 2017 Annual meeting speaker!)
In her new book The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, …
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“Who Judges the Judges?” with Professor Amar (our recent Annual Meeting speaker!)
Please join the Commonwealth Court judges, staff, and PaCCHS members on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, at 5:30 p.m., for a very special lecture and reception. The evening will begin with a lecture entitled, Who Judges the Judges?, by Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, Visiting Adjunct Professor at …
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