Word: porcellians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silent students and walked his spaniel Phantom around the campus, one could and occasionally did walk to Walden Pond, The Advocate published with some regularity, and the clubs were a center of College life. As Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, later president of Atlantic Richfield and RCA, recalls: "The Porcellian, Delphic, A.D. and Fly were still spoken of with awe by those of us who were in the lesser clubs" Adds Thomas Boylston Adams '33. "There were classes of course. Some time had to be given to them. But the object of coming to Harvard was suddenly apparent...
...class, not the Social Studies jock who won't graduate summa unless she gets a flat A on the exam in the Astronomy course she still hasn't bought the books for because she spent the entire term writing about underdeveloped nations perceptions of Max Weber, not the Porcellian Club member whose father will cut off his allowance if he doesn't maintain a C average but who hasn't had time to study because he's been shopping around for a new broker, not the Near Eastern Lang and Civ major who will have to set a course record...
...then Harvard. He maintained what was known as "a gentleman's C average" and yearned to be popular. Though he became editor of the Crimson, he could not make the freshman football team, and he was crushed at failing to get into Harvard's fanciest club, the Porcellian. Girls who encountered him at debutante dances considered him a lightweight and nicknamed him Feather Duster. His newly widowed mother bought a house in Boston to be near...
...concert, noses tilted ever so slightly skyward, vowels stretched to aristocratic dimension, the Kroks still satiate the regulars. (They play Lowell House tonight at 8:15.) For others, repulsed either by the endless references to Bermuda, the heavy Porcellian-Krok alliance, or by a cappella singing in general, the Krok music and spirit remains anathema. Yet the Kroks should be seen, and their unique talent appreciated, if not savored. Watching those immaculate dandies preen, one can imagine, just for a moment, how the other half lives, sings--and sometimes--flourishes...
...Dave Fish missed the estravaganza. He was being a good dad, and had stayed home for his son's fifth birthday party. Says Gabrieli about the visitor: "She looked midly middle eastern, but her strong Boston accent gave her away." ...Squash players JOHN DINEEN and GEORDIE LEMMON missed the Porcellian Club initiation dinner because of the Princeton match, so they get one of their...