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Membership of the club is by invitation only. The requirements and procedure are unknown. There is also reference to an initiation where all members stand on the Mound outside the Old Building and relieve themselves. How true these tasks are is unknown.
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The purpose of the College 16 is loosely defined as, "...to maintain the traditions of Saint David's College, and to provide and maintain a fraternity of gentlemen of calibre for mutual support whilst at University and in post graduate life."
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Today The 16' Club is solely a dining club, though vestiges of the university's clerical origin remain in the retention of the College Prayer and the nominal requirement that members be
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There existed a body of students in the 1830s to 1850s who banded together in secrecy to flout the rules forbidding students from appearing in the town without their
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The clandestine nature of these meetings, and the reticence of its members, means that little is known about the club.
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Secret Societies: From the Ancient and Arcane to the Modern and Clandestine, by David V. Barrett,
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The International Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Fraternal Orders, by Alan Axelrod,
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It is the only remaining undergraduate dining club at the university, and the oldest in
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Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism
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Lumieres Podcast, 15 February 2018(accessed 13 July 2021)
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places the approximate foundation of the club at 1874-6.
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Timothy Rees of Mirfield and Llandaff : a biography
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