Word: porcellian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tammany in seven out of eight elections. Oldest of nine children, son of a wealthy New Yorker, he was in the Navy in World War I for six seasick months, transferred to the Army, fought in France, met the French girl he afterwards married, got back to Harvard (and Porcellian and Hasty Pudding) to graduate just before the family fortunes collapsed. He had a brief spell of newspaper work, and then Joseph Baldwin was in politics up to the neck that his enemies said was stiffer than it need...
...Club isn't as exclusive as many os us would like to see it, and there are some pretty seedy looking characters in Mike's club these days. One thing leads to another. If vigorous steps are not taken, national scholars will soon be granted automatic membership in the Porcellian, Hasty Pudding will be holding competitions, and Harry's Club will be the last refuges of the scholar and the gentleman...
...college started out with quarters in ordinary houses, as explained by the tablets on the 1859 Gate and just inside the Porcellian Gate, and indicated by brick gammidae in the pavement south of Wadsworth House. Wadsworth House was built in the eighteenth century, but the presence of that old house is a reminiscence of the character of this part of Cambridge in its earliest days. The town stretched casually down the pleasant southerly slope toward the river, being divided into many individual plots. The primitive buildings have vanished, but the subdivision into numerous small plots, and the casual arrangement, still...
...President James B. Conant's request) to avoid war arguments. They knew well that many an alumnus bitterly resented Harvard undergraduate pacifism. They listened politely to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as he called isolation "dangerous folly" at an alumni gathering, to Class Orator Tudor Gardiner (a Porcellian) as he declared: "America must not again be dragged into the anarchy that is Europe...
...Porcellian wears a small gold pig on his watch chain, a long tweed jacket, tight flannel pants and a short haircut, generally contents himself with a gentleman's three Cs and a D in his studies. Most inviolable tradition: Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian. Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated. When a Porkie marries, fellow Porkies always gather round him after the ceremony and sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded...