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...While Hearst was getting back at his professors, fellow student J.P. Morgan Jr., Class of 1889, exacted his revenge on the members of the Porcellian club. When he wasn't invited to join the prestigious society, Morgan took matters into his own hands...and wallet. He financed the purchase of the Delphic club. There were only a handful of members at the time, so they left the gaslights on at all times so other people would know that the club was now occupied; hence, the club's nickname...
While Hearst was getting back at his professors, fellow student J.P. Morgan Jr., Class of 1889, exacted his revenge on the members of the Porcellian club. When he wasn't invited to join the prestigious society, Morgan took matters into his own hands...and wallet. He financed the purchase of the Delphic club. There were only a handful of members at the time, so they left the gaslights on at all times so other people would know that the club was now occupied; hence, the club's nickname...
...prove their excellence. Nobody who's 'got it made' has to strive for A's at Harvard, or go out for the varsity, or try for the lead in undergraduate plays, or 'comp' for the Crimson, or do much of anything except get by and get into the Porcellian Club. Everything is optional, as most things always will be for these children of the rich." Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr., author of Old Money: the Mythology of America's Upper Class...
...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...
...Although Theodore Roosevelt, class of 1880, had been a member, his cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1904, did not get into the Porcellian-one of the greatest disappointments of his life. He settled for serving as Fly librarian...