The name of the club, Boar's Head, will be recalled as the old-time inn when Falstaff made merry over his glass of ale.
So, it is the desire of the professors that the club members may gather around a table at the meeting and comfort the inner man while at the same time entering into literary and social discussion.
"[6] The society seems to have started during the 1909–1910 academic schoolyear, as in November 1909 it sponsored theatrical productions of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.
[9] Student members included: Mention of the Boar's Head Society appears in the Columbia Daily Spectator.
[2] In 2006, Hoffman reminisced, "When I returned to Columbia after the Second World War, I joined the Boar's Head Society, which was a little group of poets.