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...simply were a cut above the rest. This era was before the days of the self-conscious identity crisis, and if for the first 22 years of your life you were constantly reminded that you were born to lead, you generally led. Witness the number of Porcellian, A.D., Fly men pulling strings on Wall St. and State St. The clubs have, needless to say, produced a few men who were notorious pirates in their leadership capacity. When Groton man Richard Whitney was sent to Sing Sing for "fiscal irregularities", he had a gold Porcellian pig's head dangling from...
...days when Harvard had an overwhelming proportion of prep school graduates in its student body and Society reigned supreme, the Clubs were a way of life. They could be the source of a wife (Boston belles and their mothers have traditionally chased Porcellian men), a job (that you were offered by the Morgan partner sitting on your left at a Porcellian dinner), and divine sanction (Bishop Lawrence, for years the religious arbiter of Boston Society, was a Porcellian man). Failure to make a club was often more than a slight blow to the ego. One disconsolate father, after consulting with...
...nine surviving clubs at Harvard, the Porcellian is clearly the most venerable. By the time the clubs were really a social force at Harvard. the Porcellian had been cornering the Lowells and Cabots for one hundred years. Nepotism is the name of the game with the clubs, and the Porcellian has nurtured so many generations of legacies that even their steward is a second generation "P.C. man". Many think that the P.C. has been overly concerned with family trees to the exclusion of geniality, and the present membership includes a few members whose political leanings lie somewhere to the right...
...Porcellian, even the steward is a second generation...
...Porcellian clubhouse is nothing to drool over, largely because the P.C. values "fellowship" over T.V. sets and pool tables, and has consequently neglected to buy the latter. There is no denying the strength of that sense of fellowship, however, at least during the heyday of the clubs. Theodore Roosevelt, informing Kaiser Wilhelm of the engagement of his daughter Alice to Nicholas Longworth, volunteered the line: "Nick and I are both in the Porc, you know...