Word: porcellian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fire broke out Sunday night in the basement of the Porcellian Club building, but was soon under control...
...goodly feast. They enjoyed their midnight meal so much that they determined then and there to form a club and have such enterainments periodically. In order to render historical the origin of the club, and also to give it a classic touch, they decided to call it the Porcellian from Latin "porcus...
...society bearing the name of the "Order of the Knights of the Square Table" was joined to the Porcellian, as "the objects and interests of the two societies were identical...
...young man of no small abilities. At graduation he received his degree cum laude, and he also won honorable mention in Natural History. Naturally a very genial and pleasant man, he made many friends while in college, more especially among the men in his societies, - the Hasty Pudding Club, Porcellian Club and Institute...
Several persons who passed along Harvard Street under the roof of the Porcellian Club building came near being dangerously hurt by the falling ice, which was being shovelled off from the roof, without any notice of warning to the passers...