Word: porcellian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first final club, the Porcellian, began in 1791 when Southern students would gather together to have roast pork dinners to feel at home...
...Many past Harvard presidents were members of the clubs. Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, was in the Porcellian, Abbott L. Lowell, Class of 1877, was in the Fly and James B. Conant '14, was in the D.U. (which was absorbed...
Before this change, only the Porcellian club, the oldest of the institutions, had comparable restrictions. The Porcellian does not allow open parties, and non-members are permitted only to enter a small "bicycle room" on the club's ground floor...
...longer think sequentially and long for a word processor to help them organize their thoughts. Never mind love--there's no time for anything. Off to the gym, off to coffee, off to call the broker. You can go virtually anywhere in the world (except, I suppose, inside the Porcellian). You can obtain a virtual identity (I could be dirtydancer666, if I so chose). We can use virtual money and maintain virtual space. We have become more profilic in our exchanges with one another thanks to the technological revolution, but we spend more time trying to "communicate" than ever before...
...Porcellian has been like that for years,"he said.Elizabeth S. Zuckerman contributed to thereporting of this article...