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  Flat Hat Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Flat Hat Club or FHC Society was one of the first collegiate secret societies founded in the United States.
They became known as the "Flat Hat Club," a name that may allude to the mortarboard caps now worn by all graduating students at the university's graduation ceremonies.
The FHC became inactive during the late eighteenth century but was revived at some point, operating until the early twentieth century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flat_Hat_Club   (284 words)

  
 Secret society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The most famous member of the FHC was Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.
In correspondence, Jefferson noted that the Flat Hat Club served "no useful object." Others are the Order of the Bull's Blood (1834) at Rutgers University and the Bishop James Madison Society (1812) at The College of William and Mary.
Flat Hat Club ( 1750) at the College of William and Mary
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secret_society   (863 words)

  
 The Flat Hat
After long discussion, he kindly agreed to allow Skiffy to hold the fights on a weekly basis, as long as the club followed certain rules, such as making sure that the toy guns are kept covered walking across campus and making sure that campus police knows when the club will be in which building.
The club holds the fights on Saturday nights, though occasionally the club cancels them if other events are occurring.
Anyone interested in participating is welcome to join the club, though he or she must agree to play by the club rules.
flathat.wm.edu /story.php?issue=2004-11-12&type=5&aid=3   (393 words)

  
 Title   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The old plastering hat was taken by youngest son Robert at the age of 4 yeats and we had great difficulty in persuading him to take it off.
We moved to the north of England where he bought a flat tweed cap to match the fashion of that area, and he wore that when he walked the dogs or went to the local pub for a drink with the boys.
When the sun shines and when we are on holiday his favourite hat is the white floppy brimmed one which does not suit him at all.
www.btinternet.com /~forder/story_2.htm   (588 words)

  
 Flat Hat Club - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Although no one knows why, they became known at William and Mary as the "Flat Hat Club," a name alluding to mortarboard caps worn by all graduating students at the university's graduation ceremonies.
In a rejection of the secret Latinate name of the FHC, the PBK took Greek letters as their name, thus becoming the first Greek letter fraternity.
The FHC became an inactive society during the 20th century, but was revived in the 1970s and is active today.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Flat_Hat_Club   (316 words)

  
 Greek Zone - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first effort at student-run clubs was made at Harvard in 1703 and 1716.
So this was about the state of student clubs when six guys at William and Mary decided to try something new over a few beers in a Virginia tavern on November 11, 1750.
Members were prone to "social drinking, gaming, and horseplay." Its secret insignia was patterned after the Flat Hat's even to its initials standing for the Latin words of its motto (now lost).
www.greekzone.com /pgs/history/history2.html   (402 words)

  
 Aberchirder Bowling Club
The club went from strength to strength and on 30th April 1988, the entirely new clubhouse was opened.
Although a private registered club, guests are welcome in the lounge and bar areas provided they are accompanied, and signed in, by a member.
The Club is a member of the Scottish Bowling Association, the Highland Bowling Association and the Banffshire Bowling Association and has regular matches both home and away throughout the year.
www.foggieloan.co.uk /31abc/abc.htm   (347 words)

  
 Hat size
Mark the distance then lay it flat and measure with a ruler or yard stick.
Hat World, Inc. is the undisputed retail leader in athletic headwear.
For a sign-up fee of $3, the Passport Club provides members with a discount of 20 percent on hat purchases and a 10 percent discount on apparel and accessories, as well as notification of special offers.
gowwwshop.com /hatsize.html   (449 words)

  
 OSWESTRY & DISTRICTS CANOE CLUB MEMBERS INFORMATION SHEET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Clothing for the summer should be light and aim to cover areas likely to get sunburn, sun hat, sun glasses, barrier cream, light water proof top and bottom, towel, change of clothes, light flat soled footwear plus a strong poly bag to carry items in the canoe.
Clothing for the winter and colder times should be warm and flexible, thermals,   waterproofs, short flat soled sailing wellies or wet suit boots/trainers and warm socks, warm hat and gloves, towel and change of clothes plus a strong poly bag.
Food/drink/energy and warmth are related, ensure you have had adequate intake of food/drink before canoeing and bring with you adequate food/drink for the trip/tour, hot/cold as appropriate to weather conditions.
www.trumphurst.com /kayaktours/memberinfo.htm   (413 words)

  
 Tallahassee Crochet Club
We're crocheting baby hats, booties, blankets, cardigans, and toys in coordinating yarn to give to the soldiers wives who give birth while their husbands are serving overseas.
Flat stitch : Lay the yarn on the outside of the knitting pegs at the top of the peg.
Knot and weave in the ends on the inside of the hat.
www.divacrochet.com /page3.html   (878 words)

  
 Club Obi-Wan :: View topic - Taper tutorial......
Here is a hat that I sold last November, and I just got it back in for a reblock, as it has been worn in the rain a few times.
Now, the main reason for the taper was, once this hat got wet, the top crease was allowed to deform, and it dried in that state.
I have seen pics of my hats here, that I had to wonder if it was actually a hat that I had made, as they looked nothing like what I sent.
www.indygear.com /cow/viewtopic.php?t=12610   (1773 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Since the poem mentions wearing a red hat and purple clothes, she and her friends formed a group that met on a regular basis for tea in their red hats and purple dresses.
Since the poem mentions wearing a red hat and purple attire, she and her friends formed a group that met on a regular basis for tea in their red hats and purple dresses.
The poem speaks of age and refers to wearing a red hat and purple outfit, therefore she and her friends formed a group that met regularly in red hats and public.
www.dothats.com /redhatpoem   (2295 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The concept of fraternity has inspired individual of great social conscience to make changes to benefit their fellow man. A fraternity ensures that no man stands alone; he is responsible to his brothers, and in times of needs, he will never be deserted.
The emergence of fraternity at the college level began with the founding of the Flat Hat Club at the College of William and Mary.
Within twenty years, however, the Flat Hat Club dissolved and was eventually replaced by P.D.A. Society.
www.johndesigns.com /stonylambdas/history.html   (682 words)

  
 Flat Stanley Comes to Michigan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first thing Flat Stanley needed when he arrived from California was warm clothing.
Aunt Nancy has many activities at the Sports Club of Novi in Novi, Michigan.
It was the 6th stop on the train route, No. VI (that's a Roman numeral).
home.earthlink.net /~ncghandmadetile/flatstanleycomestomichigan   (80 words)

  
 The Show | The Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But I'm still wearing a funny hat - and I haven't got the terrible skin condition that afflicted me in the photo near the front
Steven is in it twice once wearing a multi-coloured hat at the front and then again standing a little way behind in what looks like a red wet suit only this time he has a false beard on.
CLUB inhabit a city in Middle England called Birmingham, their mission is to find amusing, diverting and character building activities with which to while away the time left before the last remaining member is dead.
www.gravychain.co.uk /club/node/91   (318 words)

  
 Felting Dictionary
Also, in England, cappers and hatters made hats and hurers made (caps) hurers are also a felted shaggy woolen cap with a felt finish.
Leuring lathe is a turntable with a block on it that supports a felt hat.
The hats is placed on the block and the lathe is turned while a leurer "leures" it with a plush velveteen pad which gives the hat a shine to the crown felt fibers.
www.hatshapers.com /Dictionary.htm   (5436 words)

  
 Club Obi-Wan :: View topic - Sizing The AB Fedora
Back then the hottest hat on the forum appeared to be the Peter Bros. which I purchased and enjoyed.
now one reason I felt that way was the front/brim of the hat did not have a nice curve down over the forehead as seen in many scenes such as cairo and in fact, it was almost flat on the front.
That is, if you have the perfect Raiders hat, but feel that the brim is too wide, once you cut the brim, it will not look right.
www.indygear.com /cow/viewtopic.php?t=12097   (1370 words)

  
 Greek Affairs: Join!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first general fraternity there are records of was organized in 1750 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Known as the "Flat Hat Club", the members met periodically in an upper room of the Raleigh Tavern, and over a bowl of punch, their laughter reportedly shook the house.
The PDA club was supposedly a literary society but had long lost those purposes.
greeks.unc.edu /join/howbegan.html   (484 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Secret Hat
Remember the first rule of the secret hat club is no-one ever talks about the secret hat club (or shows their hat).
Secret hats could be an invention if they were randomly assembled by robots and put into a case.
With a 'ping', the hat is presented in a box.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/Secret_20Hat   (1592 words)

  
 The Flat Hat
Until 1995, the fencing club was a varsity sport.
The club still competes in the Mid-Atlantics Collegiate Fencing Association (MACFA) against 11 other varsity teams and two other club teams, however.
The W&M team competes against each school in a dual meet and then all of the the schools meet in a round-robin championship tournament at the end of the year.
flathat.wm.edu /story.php?issue=2004-10-01&type=5&aid=4   (269 words)

  
 Modern Fraternities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At this time, many literary societies had become influenced by faculty control, and the formation of secret fraternities was to avoid all together any outside control of their activities.
The first secret college society was The Flat Hat Club This organization was founded in 1750 and was very similar to literary societies except it incorporated social activities as a part of its intended purpose.
Since 1772, there has been no record of the Flat Hat Club being in existence.
sigepsouth.org /modfrat.htm   (463 words)

  
 Crochet Patterns - Sun Hat Crochet Patterns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This hat squishes down flat in a.....6% for order handling fees.
All three hats are very easy to make - single crochet stitch is...
Hats and sun visors - Wide brim and visor style hats
crochet-pattern-depot.com /sun-hat-crochet-patterns.html   (960 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Red Hat Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As the friends unite to help one of their club seek revenge on a cheating husband, their adventures are punctuated by...
THE RED HAT CLUB is an amazing book that takes you through the lives of five women (who met in high school) and how they stick together through marriage troubles, kids, abusive husbands, cheating men, going-nowhere jobs, and middle age.
They belong to a group called THE RED HAT CLUB where they where purple suits and red hats and meet for lunch once a month (this club is a real thing across America).
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312316933   (720 words)

  
 Search Results for flat-hat - Encyclopædia Britannica
Men wore hats in the form of caps or hoods in ancient times, but women favoured veils and wimples until the late Middle Ages.
round hat with a turned-up brim and a flat crown.
The term is generally limited to flats in the western United States, the most...
www.britannica.com /search?query=flat-hat&submit=Find&source=MWTAB   (567 words)

  
 The Red Hat Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Red Hat Society is a women's organization founded in 1998 by Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton, California.
Red Hat Society Crafts Book The nearly 80 red hat society craft projects include both flat album-type pages as well as spectacular dimensional ideas for red hat gift boxes, red hat ladies invitations, and other red hat society designs.
The goal of the Red Hat Society is to join women together and form fun long lasting friendships and of course, Wear a red hat and purple clothing while doing this.
goredhat.com /news.php?id=8   (351 words)

  
 Surrey Cryptics Cricket Club
Cryptic folklore will refer to 'Brooke-Webb's match' long after dear James has hung up his boots and settled by a Scottish river with his sons, his flat hat and his fishing rod.
This was what Sunday (and particularly Cryptic) cricket should be all about and it was an utter delight for all who were there to see a loyal, though far too occasional, Cryptic notch up his first 50 in 9 (or 10?) years with the club and bring off such a thrilling win.
It has long been acknowledged that this club is not a democracy.
www.surreycryptics.co.uk /reports/rep_00_claygate.html   (543 words)

  
 Shhh! The Secret Side to the College’s Lesser Known Societies - The DoG Street Journal
The F.H.C., unlike Phi Beta Kappa, which was adopted at other college campuses, faltered during the Revolutionary War and was not revived.
The actual words that the acronym F.H.C. stood for were masked by the humorous or perhaps contemptuous appellation “the Flat Hat Club,” and have since been shrouded by the passage of time.
Similarly, the Alphas, a current all-female secret society at the College, was named after the Alpha Club, a female literary, music and dramatic society that developed early in the twentieth century in response to female exclusion from male literary societies.
www.dogstreetjournal.com /story/2049   (830 words)

  
 Red Hat Sociaty
The Red Hat Society is a growing “disorganization” of women who meet middle age with humor and enthusiasm.
The friends passed on more hats to their friends, and the soon the group found themselves going our to tea and lunch together dressed in their vintage red hats with purple dresses.
The Red Hat Society Red Hat Society was started in 1998 by Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton California.
www.all-red-hat.com /red-hat-sociaty.php   (479 words)

  
 An Oceanhippie's Home Page -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lives in "the land of NOD" where ever that is. Hat type cap with foreign legion neck cloth (Hemp of course).
Hat type cap (capo??) Drinks what ever we buy him he can't speak the lingo....
Hat type strange cap with neoprene brim (Alien Artefact) drinks beer.
www.oceanhippie.org /roges.htm   (882 words)

  
 Club Car Golf Cars & Utility Vehicles, Transportation Vehicles, Industrial Utility Vehicles. Golf Cars, Golf Carts, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Club Car Golf Cars and Utility Vehicles, Transportation Vehicles, Industrial Utility Vehicles.
"Hat Yai Resort and Golf Club is the first golf course with 18 holes developed at Hat Yai area in the far south of thailand.
On the flat terrain, the 18 holes are in a good placement with water hazards and bunkers.
www.clubcar.co.th /golfcourse/phuket/hatyairesort.asp   (98 words)

  
 Sound Opinions Message Board -> SOMB Song Club
The song club is a weekly thread that gives boarders a chance to share and discuss songs.
Songs featured in the song club are in no way associated with or sanctioned by Sound Opinions, WXRT, or any other group.
And Club Lonely would say, "Hey, Buppa Baby, you motherfucker!" and they'd be smiling and weaving and touching....
www.soundopinions.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=2692   (2739 words)

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