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...factors into consideration when recruiting members. Some of the clubs have built images which either attract or repel club-bound sophomores. Both the Spee and the Fly have reputations for being intellectual and favoring artists and other "achievers"; the A. D. tends to attract fastidiously-dressed New Yorkers; the Owl draws a lot of athletes; Delphic members are quite likely to enjoy heavy drinking and gambling; the Porcellian Club is "old Boston": its membership is so ingrown that all four officers of the club for next year are cousins...

Author: By Herbert H. Denton jr., | Title: Behind the Velvet Curtain | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

...addition to the Porcellian there are ten other social clubs at Harvard--known as "final clubs" because of their mutually exclusive membership regulations. Listed more or less in declining order of prestige, they are the A.D., Fly, Spee, Delphic. Owl, Phoenix-S.K., D.U., Fox, Iroquois...

Author: By Herbert H. Denton jr., | Title: Behind the Velvet Curtain | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

...clubs enjoy pointing to their rosters of distinguished alumni. Theodore Roosevelt was a member of the Porcellian, Teddy and Jack Kennedy were members of the Spee, Bobby was a member of the Owl. Robert Benchley and former Harvard President James Bryant Conant joined the D. U. Franklin Roosevelt was turned down by the Porcellian--one biographer claims that this was one of the most devastating set-backs of his life--but made the Fly. Nearly 80 per cent of the present Harvard Corporation belonged to final clubs when undergraduates...

Author: By Herbert H. Denton jr., | Title: Behind the Velvet Curtain | 5/25/1965 | See Source »

...OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit, and rarely the twain do meet. A nonintellectual prostitute (Diana Sands) and a musty book clerk (Alan Alda) make the attempt seem screamingly funny. She tries to improve her mind; he loses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit, and rarely the twain do meet. A nonintellectual prostitute (Diana Sands) and a musty book clerk (Alan Alda) make the attempt seem screamingly funny. She tries to improve her mind; he loses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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