Chameleon Club

The Chameleon Club is a gentleman's club at Cambridge University, sometimes called the Charm Club. The year of founding is usually given as 1723, when a collective group of undergraduates seperated themselves from several drinking societies within the social network of Cambridge. The Chameleon Club was formally known to the campus in 1983 when the school newspaper, The Varsity, ran a small column on an alleged collection of elite members. The club emblem is the chameleon turning back on itself to eat its tail and members are often known simply as "Charms-men". The Chameleon Club is the top of the "secrecy of membership," often bracketed with Yale's Skull and Bones.

According to a Cambridge University Student run newspaper article of February 23, 1983:
This society was established in 1723. It is rumoured to have location on Jesus Lane but members are known to enter through a back gate and no visitors or nonmembers are allowed on site.It is rumoured that the Chameleon Club allows no entrance through its front door in over sixty years and that all windows on the first floor have been built with false rooms. Its members are taken from the second years and are approched by a selected second year under the strict guidance of a senior member. The origin of its name is assumed to be taken on the fact that it is most likely a collection of top members from each of the societies on campus.

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