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Between his studies and his social life, Roosevelt taught Sunday school. He later wrote that he thought his companions would look down on him for this if he "had not also been a corking boxer, a good runner, and a genial member of the Porcellian Club...
Whitney left his home in New York yesterday afternoon after having cancelled a reservation for the Porcellian Club dinner to be held in Boston tonight. Despite a secretary's statement that he had gone to California, he was reported headed for Minneapolis, home of Bernie Blorman recently displaced coach of the Minnesota Gophers...
Sullivan was well-liked in his ward; there are many stories of the times when the indominitable little Councilor got up in the middle of the night to aid a constituent. His attacks on Harvard were purely superficial: he knew all the members of the Porcellian Club by their first names and he had a strong friendship with several important members of the faculty. He maintained a "midnight table" for himself and his friends at the Hayes-Bickford cafeteria. Most of the time, these "friends" were students...
...race of the American Healey Society's second informal regatta Saturday afternoon on the Charles. The freshmens' winning time was 3:54.7 over three-quarters of a miler Leverett House, Eliot House, and Dunster House finished after the Yardlings in that order. In the other race for eights the Porcellian Club crew, including several varsity oarsmen, defeated the Fly Club by two-thirds of a length...
...Smith (founder of the Edward B. Smith & Co. investment house, which later merged with Charles D. Barney & Co. to become Smith, Barney & Co.), Geoff Smith was born in the Kitten-house Square section, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, where he was a member of the Porcellian Club, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Dechert Price, Smith & Clark, and joined the Navy in World War II, where he rose to captain and procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation...