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...sport all the energy and brilliance of a fine executive intelligence. When he graduated from St. Mark's school he won the Founder's medal for being the best pupil. At Harvard he finished a four-year course in three years and was a member of the Porcellian Club and manager of the football team. During this period the nickname "Mike" was applied to him for some reason now forgotten. Later, his various directorates and the importance of his activities in law and the railroad business did not interfere with his more ardent interests. He became famous...
...Porcellian Club--Brewster Righter...
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Died. George Washington Lewis, of Cambridge, Mass., for over 45 years the esteemed Negro steward of the Porcellian Club at Harvard College; in Cambridge, Mass. Ancient and most esoteric of Harvard clubs is Porcellian, founded in 1791.* An oil portrait of Steward Lewis hangs in the clubhouse. Steward Lewis had ten Porcellian pallbearers...
...Porcellian roster includes Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nicholas Longworth, Poet James Russell Lowell, Richard Henry (Two Years Before the Mast) Dana, Novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman. The club's favorite brew is a mixture of beer...