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...Porcellian Rejection
With his social background, however, Roosevelt gained acceptance, at least in the clubbie set. He climbed the social terraces at Harvard--the Dickey, the Hasty Pudding, and that loftiest of social honors, the Porcellian. But he must have been a somewhat unorthodox club member. One day he took Alice Lee to lunch at the "Porc," never before polluted by the presence of a woman. "The luncheon with Alice," Pringle notes, "caused manly indignation in the breasts of fellow members, and the true Porcellian man will deny even now that it ever could have happened...
Curtis notes that the former marked overlap between the membership of Phi Beta Kappa and that of the Porcellian Club was suddenly discontinued after this momentous event. And his analysis of the price of the Society dinner reveals that before 1846 each member of the chapter must have consumed the equivalent of "a bottle of Madeira, a bottle of Sherry, and two bottles of Port...
...only against the superior strength of Harvard units that this fall's team, captained by Sarah Stevens '57, failed to win. The Cliffies lost to the polished athletes of three clubs: Delphic, 0-2; Porcellian...
...mean the clubs," we said. "Yes," he said, obviously relieved that at last we were getting somewhere. "What is the best club?" We guessed Porcellian. He asked where it was. We told him where we thought it was, and he started for the door, shuddering as he passed a serene young man wearing a starched shirt, with neither buttons nor tabs. We tried to warn him that he might have trouble getting into Porcellian. But he was already gone...