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MOST of the show is really funny. Sometimes you laugh at the performers: the men's chorus looks like the Porcellian Club in drag. Sometimes you laugh at the preposterously poor numbers: in a seashore sequence, the women in the company dance on top of enormous beachballs like poodles doing a routine for the Ed Sullivan Show. Sometimes you laugh at the book: I think the line "No, no, Nanette" was spoken or sung about once every six minutes during the show...
...final clubs," Harvard's version of fraternities, for excluding Jews, Negroes and political militants. Today the clubs are viewed with more tolerance, partly because they are no longer exclusive. Toby Campion, a junior on probation for participating in a recent anti-ROTC demonstration, is a member of Porcellian; Ernie Wilson, a black student leader from Washington, D.C., belongs to the Fly. "Nobody is interested in emphasizing the differences any more," says Rick Berne, a junior from Syracuse, N.Y., who plays tackle on the football team. "I mean you go have a smoke with some jock, or you date...
...probably thought the most stylish clothes horse at Harvard belonged to the Porcellian Club and lived in Ellot House. You're wrong...
Officers say high club dues are to blame for membership problems. "People are willing to pay dues to join the Porcellian," one officer said, "but the Bat just doesn't have that kind of prestige to draw...
...club is an inverse variation to its prestige. The Bat Club is known to be the gambling club, closely challenged by the Iroquois; the D.U. Club the least exclusive (among whites, that is); the A.D. Club and Fly Club good, but containing some ugly rich folk; the Porcellian Club the most prestigious, wealthy, and socially acceptable in Boston; the Spee Club and its Fred Roloff the most interesting and broad, but also sprinkled with dullards; the Owl Club the nest of Eastern preppies and athletes; the Phoenix Club, the Delphic Club, and the Fox Club not worth talking about except...