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Final Clubs: A.D. Club, The Bat Club, The Delphic Club, D.U. Club, Fly Club, Fox Club, Iroquois Club, Owl Club, Phoenix-S.K. Club Porcellian Club, the Spee Club...
...Harvard, he played varsity tennis and squash, held a Harvard National Scholarship, and served on the Freshman Union Committee, as Secretary of the Student Council, and as a member of the Crimson Key. He was elected first Class Marshal of his class and was a member of the Porcellian Club...
Dean Watson answers that "only about one half of one per cent of the people not in clubs are terribly unhappy about it." It is no doubt true that non-members are far more content than the undergraduate who wants to get into the Porcellian Club but is forced to settle for a club farther down the ladder...
Racial prejudice and anti-Semitism are still vital factors in the selection of club members. The Porcellian Club is reputed never to have admitted a Jewish student, and the story is told that the only Jew ever to enter the Delphic Club did so under an assumed name...
...Judging from my experience, I would say that there is no doubt that the Porcellian Club--as an institution --is anti-Semitic," Birge said. "Many of the individual members may not be, but the Club definitely...