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Final club members made only few comments about i.e.'s charge that the club system was doing an "injury" to the college by "deadening or destroying intellect in the members." According to Porcellian President Thor Thors '56, "Nobody is getting too excited about the article...
...author notes that the temporary seats in the Stadium, always filled in the past, have been dismantled and the cheerleaders no longer sport Crimson varsity athletic letters on their sweaters. The Gold Coast Porcellian Club and Max Keezer's used clothing store (now managed by Joe) were all part of the Cambridge scene in the twenties, McCarthy relates...
...Roosevelt's doing, rather than hers, that Miss Lee has the distinction of being the first woman over admitted into the Porcellian clubhouse. The incident, which almost cost Roosevelt his membership, came after a walk through the Yard in the spring of 1879. Halfway through the Yard, Roosevelt noticed it was time for lunch, and promptly took her to the club, where, amidst scandalized whispers, they had luncheon...
...Khan]." But the days of ancestor worship are more or less over, and in point of prestige, the Harvard clubman has become the vanishing American. Once, Theodore Roosevelt, 1880, could happily blurt to the Kaiser that his son-in-law was Porcellian ("A mighty satisfactory thing to be in the Pore"). In 1954, such fathers-in-law are rare...
...half a century later, Gardiner's observation is at last accurate.Outwardly less attractive than the isolated clubs of Mt. Auburn Street, but more profitable financially, are the buildings on Massachusetts Avenue. S.A.E., the non-final remnant of the fraternity system, has rooms over the Bick. In the next building, Porcellian rents its first floor to J. August...