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They called it "the Pig Club" back in 1791 when it was founded, and some call it that today for different reasons. You see, the Porcellian Club--the most prestigious and mysterious of Harvard's nine final clubs--took its original name from two of its first members who enjoyed "that delicacy in roasted form," according to Cleveland Amory. The vernacular--and even the club--has changed since 1791, and Porcellian is now known to its enamored members as "the Porc...
...When I was a freshman, I looked at them and I liked them," one prospective club member said...
Still, Harvard's final clubs--Porcellian, A.D., Delphic, D.U., Phoenix, Owl, Fox, Spee and Fly--symbolize something to everyone on campus. The standards of club membership have changed over Harvard's many years, but the clubs still carry the onus of mystery and elitism they cultivated for over 200 years...
...clubs will always stand for elitism to the up-and-coming student whose ego and self-perception finds a niche in Harvard's plethora of prestige and vanity, and to the super-communist who sneers at the stodgy brick walls of the Fly Club with its fenced-in garden and throws eggs at anything resembling a starchy penguin on Halloween...
Only 16 per cent of today's undergraduates belong to final clubs. During the '30s and '40s, 40 per cent were members. During the tumultous '60s, the figure was reduced to 10 per cent. One club, the Iroquois, closed in 1970. Despite the decline in membership, the issue of final clubs arouses adrenalin in any social circle, particularly when recruiting season comes around...