Meanings
plural final clubs
- An undergraduate social club at Harvard College.
Origin
Harvard used to have a variety of clubs for freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, with students of different years being in different clubs, and the "final clubs" were so named because they were the last social club a person could join before graduation.
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