Word: porcellian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should know that at Harvard you don't "major" in something; you "concentrate." To use the word "major" is like referring to the Yard as the "Campus" or calling the Porcellian a "frat." It isn't done...
...fall, the Radcliffe field hockey team takes on the Spee, Fly, and Porcellian, as well as the Lampoon when the boys from Bow St. can field a team. Usually the girls lose, but then that's because they play by the rules...
...fall season was disappointing. The field hockey team, which dominates the inter-collegiate schedule, didn't win a game. The girls lost fiercely-fought games to Wellesley, Spee, Fly, and Porcellian and tied a weaker Jackson squad...
...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...
...curiously enough, the more removed from any real significance the clubs become, the more the clubs hang on to their traditions. At the Porcellian back in the late fifties, eyebrows were raised and throats cleared in indignation when the President of the United States was brought to the club as a guest. The Porcellian, you see, has a rule that no guest may visit the club more than once in his life-time. President Eisenhower, some of the indignant members raged, had visited the club once before when head of the Allied Forces