In spite of social distinctions, few fellows need be excluded who care to debate or are clubable in spirit.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin
With freshman classes as large as those of to-day, the old social machinery becomes incapable of sifting the clubable from the less clubable, those who deserve recognition in the body of undergraduates from those who do not.
"An American at Oxford"
John Corbin
Such a man as Richard Jefferies could never be clubable.
"The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies"
Walter Besant