I’ve been to them all many times, and I’ve been a temporary member of the University club after family pressure. Cosmos is great. Not quite my speed, but I’ve enjoyed every experience there. It is a great intellectual meeting place. University Club is filled with incompetent douches who believe they are experts at everything because they listen to the monthly watered down 45 minute talks. The type that get ahead (or stay where they are) because they wear suits when nobody else does in hopes that nobody will notice the incompetence.

My favorite is the Arts Club of Washington. Such an eclectic group!

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Anonymous wrote:How much is it to join these clubs? How is it different from country clubs? No golf, but what does it have? Is it just for dining?

I don’t think it’s all that expensive but to join cosmos club you pretty much have to be a published scientist or Supreme Court justice.

Also CEO / President's of foundations, large nonprofits. I assume you have to be nominated by someone then voted on to join. This was a big thing for boomer's and older generations. Seems like genx never cared as much (though we also suffered from career lag since the older folks in these kinds of fields never retired). Do Millennials care?

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Anonymous wrote:How much is it to join these clubs? How is it different from country clubs? No golf, but what does it have? Is it just for dining?

I don’t think it’s all that expensive but to join cosmos club you pretty much have to be a published scientist or Supreme Court justice.

Lol, no.

Anonymous wrote:Average age at the Cosmos club is in the 70's. A colleague is a member and always trying to get me to go. I have been a few times for meetings and dinners and also attended a wedding there. Overall it is a dour place with a lot of history but seems not many young people want to socialize that way anymore. Back in the day it was a place where DC intellectuals and many writers gathered.

This. And the only people I know who joined are not intellectuals, and they regretted it once they realized they were the youngest by 50 years and everyone there is boring.

Anonymous wrote:How much is it to join these clubs? How is it different from country clubs? No golf, but what does it have? Is it just for dining?

I don’t think it’s all that expensive but to join cosmos club you pretty much have to be a published scientist or Supreme Court justice.

How much is it to join these clubs? How is it different from country clubs? No golf, but what does it have? Is it just for dining?

Bumping - anyone recently join one of these clubs?

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Anonymous wrote:There is also the Metropolitan Club, and for women there is the Sulgrave Club. I know people who are members of the various clubs. One benefit is reciprocity in other cities, and many of these clubs have sleeping rooms.

Sulgrave closed five years ago!! It's a luxury apt. building now.

Sulgrave Club is very much open. I am a member.

I went to an event there in May. It seemed to be fully staffed and operating. The building is beautiful.

I received a Cosmos Club travel grant in grad school to conduct research in London. I'm still grateful!

Cosmos gives out scholarship money. I got some for a research trip in grad school.

I once went to a party at the Cosmos club and met some royal person from Ethiopia. A prince maybe?

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/543799.page

Here is a thread from 2016 with information.

I’ve been in the Cosmos Club for an awards dinner type thing because they offer research grants and had funded some of my graduate work. My advisor was telling me how they didn’t allow women in until some way-too-recent year.

Between 1999-2001 I bartender at a place on P st. Right by the cosmos. Met a lot of nice men who were members. Invited to dinner several times.