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	PrintableArticle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The final clubs that existtoday—the Porcellian, the Fly, The Spee, the AD, the Phoenix SK, the Fox, the Owl, and the Delphic—were not all always called "final clubs." Most of them were founded not as independent entities but as local chapters of nationally organized fraternities.
		The Spee Club traces its roots back to the Harvard chapter of the national Zeta Psi fraternity, from which it broke its ties in 1892, and adopted the name "the Spee" from the "Psi" in "Zeta Psi." The Spee was also a waiting club which eventually emerged as a final club.
		Originally the club only admitted a total of 16 students each year—eight in the fall and eight in the spring—and all the members of the new club were freshmen.
	www.harvardindependent.com /PrintableArticle.aspx?ArticleID=7821 (1195 words)

	Trinity Church, Boston.(Books about Antiques.)(Book Review) - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Of all the social clubs at Harvard College, the Porcellian is the most exclusive.
		At least in the nineteenth century, the city was a benign oligarchy, and perhaps the Porcellian was too, although that was a secret to all but its members.
		At all events, members of the club had a disproportionate influence on what happened in the city, for which it was an incubator of movers and shakers to be.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-123332444.html (997 words)

	The Chosen; ISBN-10: 0618574581 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roosevelt had also attended the right boarding school; of the sixteen juniors and seniors in Porcellian, five were Groton alumni.18 The Porcellian stood at the summit of Harvard’s elaborate and rigid social hierarchy, which began to sort students from the moment the new freshmen arrived in Cambridge.
		The transformed urban environment of the late nineteenth century presented a distinctive set of problems for the rearing of upper-class children; whereas in previous years the elite had relied on private day schools and tutors to educate their offspring, they believed that the city had become an unhealthy place for children to grow up.
		At a dinner at the Union Club in New York City given in honor of the rector as he was approaching his eighty-first birthday, he addressed the anti-Roosevelt mania among Groton graduates, telling the assembled: “Something has troubled me a good deal lately.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=689606 (3967 words)

	Qwika - similar:Secret_society
		A secret society is a social organization that requires its members to conceal certain activities—such as rites of initiation or club ceremonies—from outsiders.
		The Porcellian Club is a male-only final club at Harvard University, founded in 1791.
		The Flat Hat Club (as it was known outside its membership) or F.H.C. Society was the first of the collegiate secret societies founded in the present United States.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Secret_society (1383 words)

	Final club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Four female clubs exist, similar to the male final clubs, and are called the Bee, the Isis, the Sabliere Society, and the Pleiades; the Bee was founded in 1991 and stands as the oldest female final club at Harvard.
		Most of the final clubs do not provide housing to their members who have not graduated yet, nor are they affiliated with national organizations (anymore, that is — the Spee began its life as Zeta Psi and the A.D., the Delphic and the Fly all began as Alpha Delta Phi; other remnants remain as well).
		Still others, like the Porcellian and the Delphic, never allow non-members in -- in the Porcellian's case, this means that they never allow non-members past a small room by the entrance called "the bicycle room," while the Delphic has a guest room in the basement with a seperate entrance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Final_club (1186 words)

	Yale Daily News - Final clubs provide controversial social outlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The clubs -- which, like Yale's secret societies, are old, exclusive and moneyed, but unlike Yale societies, are sex-segregated -- often throw invite-only parties in their houses, which are dispersed throughout the center of Harvard's campus.
		Harvard's final clubs are unique among the "HYP" elite organizations in remaining single-sex, as both the secret societies and the eating clubs were co-ed by the early 1990s.
		She argued that the entrenchment of the all-male final clubs, which own a large portion of the social space in Harvard Square, gives the members of the clubs a distinct advantage both while they are at Harvard and after they graduate.
	www.yaledailynews.com /PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=32489 (1419 words)

	The Chosen (washingtonpost.com)
		The Porcellian stood at the summit of Harvard's elaborate and rigid social hierarchy, which began to sort students from the moment the new freshmen arrived in Cambridge.
		So exalted was election to the Institute that the Boston newspapers and the Crimson published the names of the students in the precise order in which they were admitted, a practice that continued through 1904.
		As a consequence, the competition for social position and the leadership of extracurricular activities could be - and often was - ferocious; in scholastic matters, however, the "gentleman's C" reigned supreme.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/thechosen.htm (1913 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: The Clubs: Pale, But Still Breathing
		Although the clubs are alive and not likely to die a sudden death, they are a shadow of their former selves in terms of exclusiveness and social power.
		They could be the source of a wife (Boston belles and their mothers have traditionally chased Porcellian men), a job (that you were offered by the Morgan partner sitting on your left at a Porcellian dinner), and divine sanction (Bishop Lawrence, for years the religious arbiter of Boston Society, was a Porcellian man).
		Nepotism is the name of the game with the clubs, and the Porcellian has nurtured so many generations of legacies that even their steward is a second generation "P.C. man".
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=250877 (1166 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Second Black Student Elected To Selective Porcellian Club
		The exclusive Porcellian Club this week elected a Black member for the second time in the all-male final club's 193-year history.
		A number of other clubs also elected Black members, according to a sophomore who asked not to be identified.
		The rejection reportedly caused dissension within the club and two members apparently resigned in protest, after which the club held a special meeting and voted to accept Edwards, who refused the offer of membership.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=232081 (483 words)

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		During the four years at Harvard he joined nearly all the clubs and societies existing at that time.
		Of these he says: "I was enrolled among the members of different, and sometimes opposite, institutions, - a Theological Society, which wnas very good, and a Porcellian Club, which was very bad; a Phi Beta Kappa Society, intended to be composed of the best scholars, aned a 'Navy'.
		Club, which was above suspicion as containing the worst." He graduated with the "poem" at Coin- mence ment in 1806.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_002/TECH_V002_S0326_P002.txt (461 words)

	P 3: Harvard Square History & Dev't by Charles Sullivan, CHC
		Rival investors strived to attract the most affluent students, and exclusive clubs contributed to the ambience of the area.
		Having such a base was particularly desirable because the university was not always willing to grant space for club activities, particularly when their antics earned the administration's disapproval.
		One club, Delta Upsilon, lost popularity because its otherwise attractive clubhouse was too far from the Gold Coast, so in 1930 it put up a new building at the corner of Mount Auburn and Dunster streets.
	www.cambridgema.gov /~Historic/hsqhistory3.html (2702 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Enter to grow in wisdom
		Only members are allowed inside the club, and the perpetually drawn shades ensure that outsiders can't even sneak a peek at the interior (which is reputed to have changed very little in the club's 200-plus years).
		The list of Porcellian members includes architect H.H. Richardson, Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw (leader of the fl 54th Regiment), Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, President Theodore Roosevelt (his younger cousin FDR was rejected), and writer George Plimpton.
		The Porcellian Club donated the money to build the gate, which was completed in 1901.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/12.15/18-gates.html (3177 words)

	Frank Roosevelt at Harvard, November-December 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the final club race of the year his crew came from behind to nip Weld's by three feet.
		The Porcellian was the loftiest of Harvard's "final" clubs.
		Lathrop Brown, Frank's roommate, would later write that "his not 'making' the Porcellian meant only that he was free of any restraining influences of a lot of delightful people who thought that the world belonged to them and who did not want to change anything in it." Frank settled for membership in the Fly Club.
	www.harvardmag.com /nd96/frank2.html (2111 words)

	Porcellian Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Porcellian Club is a male-only final club at Harvard University, sometimes called the Porc or the P.C. The year of founding is usually given as 1791, when a group began meeting under the name "the Argonauts,"
		A notice of Harvard would be as incomplete without a reference to the Porcellian Club as a notice of Oxford or Cambridge would be in which the [Oxford] Union Debating Society held no place.
		More recent information on the membership of the Porcellian Club may be found in a 1994 Harvard Crimson article by Joseph Mathews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porcellian_Club (1477 words)

	\| TIME
		Members of the seven "final" clubs at Harvard wear such things—an owl for the Owl Club, a fox for the Fox Club, a fly for the Fly Club, a bull for the A.D. Club and so on.
		Porcellian ("Pork") Club, oldest (1790) of Harvard's "finals," was founded by undergraduates who sat around talking literature and eating roast pig (porcellus).
		Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,769577-3,00.html (707 words)

	Theta Nu Epsilon Society - Articles - Cass’s Comments
		In the East we find the Hasty Pudding Club being founded as a senior society at Harvard as early as 1795 “to cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism.” It became a secret organization, with a regular initiation ceremony.
		The Signet, another fourth year order, was established in 1870; the Porcellian Club, the first distinctively Harvard society to include members of more than a single class, was formed in 1791.
		Meetings always were extremely convivial, and the club still exists as one of the most prominent at Harvard.
	www.theamericanminerva.com /thetanuepsilon/06Articles/Articles/1929CasssComments.html (6375 words)

	Politics and Society: Facebooking Alone
		An additional purpose of the Freshman Facebook is to provide information about incoming freshamn to clubs, a key method of networking among universities.
		For example, Harvard University boasts the exclusive Porcellian Club who used the Fresham Facebook as an initial screening process for new members.
		In comparison, the goal of facebook is defined by Zuckerbeg on the facebook blog: "We made the site so that all of our members are a part of smaller networks like schools, companies or regions, so you can only see the profiles of people who are in your networks and your friends." (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2208562130).
	blog.lib.umn.edu /smaj0002/polisoc/2006/09/facebooking_alone.html (777 words)

	The Daily Screw from The Virtual Corkscrew Museum
		Peters was a member of the Porcellian Club and designed their building at what is now 1320 Massachusetts Avenue and currently occupied by J. August Company offering Harvard decorated sportswear and gift items.
		The Porcellian is considered the most prestigious of Harvard’s undergraduate organizations, and Peters gave the club an elegant presence on Massachusetts Avenue directly opposite the Yard’s Porcellian Gate.
		Sprague is a member of several prominent clubs in this city.
	www.bullworks.net /daily/04jan22.htm (985 words)

	Amazon.com: "Porcellian Club": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Babbo always said that the two essential things to do at Harvard were to play football and to join the Porcellian Club.
		The Composition of Old Money 1 39 St. Paul's School to Harvard, from the Porcellian Club to the Somerset Club and the Knickerbocker Club, from the summer place at Northeast Harbor, Maine, to the winter place...
		He was elected to the pres-tigious Porcellian Club, visited frequently at the home of Mrs.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Porcellian-Club (532 words)

	The Harvard Guide: Seven Presidents of the United States Studied at Harvard
		Captain of the freshman football team, reporter for the student paper, The Crimson, and sporting a C average, Roosevelt's driving ambition was to attain the pinnacle of Harvard's social world.
		Although when his cousin Theodore became president, the younger Roosevelt was kidded about being a member of the "royal family," he would not feel he had accomplished his social goals until he became accepted by the Porcellian, Harvard's most exclusive club.
		It was forever galling to Roosevelt that he was flballed from the Porcellian, and he never was to learn who had made the deciding negative vote.
	www.hno.harvard.edu /guide/students/stu5.html (938 words)

	The American Presidents Series
		Roosevelt." And he eagerly cultivated the students of his own social background; it would take him a couple of years to shed his inherited snobbishness, and we find him writing home that he stood nineteenth in his class, with only "one gentleman" ahead of him.
		But he was well enough liked, if considered a bit eccentric -- his friend Robert Bacon would not visit his rooms because of the smell of his zoological specimens -- and he was duly elected to the exclusive Porcellian Club.
		It is interesting to note that he chose for the topic of his senior essay "the practicability of equalizing men and women before the law," and that he didn't believe that in marriage a woman should assume her husband's name.
	www.americanpresidentsseries.com /bookexcerpt.asp?NUM=26 (1159 words)

	Outsports Discussion Board > Ted Kennedy to Quit Sexist Group
		Because, you know, the Owl Club is like one of those LA gangs where you gotta walk the line of a beat down by other members before you can leave and so it takes a while to get in good enough shape to quit.
		Before people condemn social clubs like these and Greek-letter groups, let's not forget that the I Amdt's freedom of association protects us as much in whom we choose to associate with as it does from whom we wish to avoid.
		Jan 23 2006, 08:14 AM I'm far from being a liberal or conservative, but I think it is perfectly acceptable for a man to belong to an all-male club.
	www.outsports.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t11319.html (779 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
		William Rockefeller (a brother and partner of John D.) and Edward Harriman, for example, were among the leading robber barons of the late nineteenth century, and neither had attended college.
		A sense of the atmosphere at Princeton circa 1900 is provided by a newspaper account of a “rush” (a common event) that took place after the freshman- sophomore baseball game: “The first-year men won the game, and to celebrate the victory endeavored to parade the streets of Princeton under the protection of the junior class.
		Educational institutions — notably, boarding schools and the elite private colleges — played a critical role in socializing and unifying the national upper class.
	www.wnyc.org /books/54031 (5888 words)

	row2k Coverage: Henley Royal Regatta
		They are indeed the better oarsmen and can drop the rate to 27 while maintaining a 5 length lead on the line.
		That was to be expected from a club that a few years ago won the Temple Challenge.
		Porcellian were very gracious in defeat and recognized London's supremacy immediately after finishing with a warm cheer.
	www.row2k.com /henley/features.cfm?ID=304 (1828 words)

	washingtonpost.com: When the Truth Had Consequences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All my parents' assets, down to many of the dresses and coats in my mother's closet, were seized and sold at a bankruptcy auction to raise money for Whitney's creditors (including widows and orphans of former Stock Exchange employees whose benefit fund Whitney raided for his own investments).
		For the rest of his life, Whitney, once a commanding figure, was shunned by his business associates, as well as his silk-stocking friends from the New York Yacht Club, the Essex Hunt in New Jersey and the Porcellian Club at his alma mater, Harvard.
		After being freed, he tended a herd of dairy cows in Massachusetts and later was a clerk in an armaments factory.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A1182-2002Aug9?language=printer (2184 words)

	Robert Ginty Career & Bio
		He is an associate of Adam's House as well as an honorary member of the Porcellian Club.
		Ginty is the class rep for the 1971 Alumni of Christ Church College Oxford, and is a Trustee for the Yale University Rugby Football Club.
		He is an associate member of the Harrow Association, the Oxford University Society, the Society of Irish Playwrights, the Irish Georgian Society, the Royal Dublin Society, the Irish Academy of Letters, and the Royal Society of the Arts in London.
	www.robertginty.com (2787 words)

	Meeting God at Harvard
		Harvard is very liberal now when it comes to clubs, but you can see that deep at the very center of things, it remains as WASPy as ever.
		After reading your curious observations about The Porcellian Club, I can only draw the conclusion that you were at the wrong party.
		I do not question that G-d did something in the author's heart, yet one must ask whether she put forth the same impression as the others at the party.
	www.aish.com /spirituality/odysseys/Meeting_God_at_Harvard.asp (1420 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Theodore Roosevelt, Feminist
		Though not a great deal is known about her—few of the letters that passed between them survive, for instance—there are indications that she was a girl of lively intellect and advanced opinions.
		There is a story that one autumn day she breached the exclusively male precincts of Harvard’s Porcellian Club by lunching there extemporaneously with her suitor, to the consternation of other members.
		Even more suggestive of Alice’s influence over Thee (as she called him) was a senior essay he wrote in the spring of 1880, when their young romance was in first flight.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1978/1/1978_1_106_print.shtml (626 words)

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