Harvard University Porcellian Club

Princeton is the Ivy Club, Yale has Skull and Bones and the Harvard University? They are the men's final club only Club Porcelli, also called the Porc or PC. This elite organization, has a bit of attention, probably unwanted by the premiere of the movie The Social Network. In the film, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, tries desperately to try to enter the club, and details of the film came from an interesting source, the actress Natalie Portman. Portman met with writer Aaron Sorkin and spilled the details about the secret society, who was out with a member. So what's the deal with the Club of Porcellio? Here are 8 things you never knew.
• There is a rumor that "if Porcelli members do not earn their first million before turning 40, the club will give them." Way to lay on the pressure!
• The motto of the club is the club motto, Dum Vivamus vivimus which means "at the same time we live, let live."
• The club mascot is a pig with club members occasionally wear ties and other accessories head pork or pork in it.
• The club was founded in 1791. The first time I met called themselves "The Argonauts", then were referred to as "the Pig Club" (due to a feast of roast pork, which was the first meeting of the club's future.) They settled on its final name in this way, "In order that the historical origins of the club, and also to give a classic touch Porcelli decided to call the American" porcus. "In 1831, the company bearing the name of" Order of the Knights of the Square Table "was joined Porcelli, as" the objects and interests of the two companies were identical. "
* The clubhouse is known as the "old barn." It is just across the yard of Harvard University, the club even won the door of limestone which has a carving of a boar's head.
• Members are selected from the Senior, Junior and Level Two classes (Freshmen sorry, you're lucky!) There are about eight students chosen from each class to participate.* Former members include (from a 1940 article in Time magazine) "The pork was as members of James Russell Lowell, the two famous Oliver Wendell Holmeses (the author of the autocrat of the breakfast table and the Supreme Court of Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (Franklin Roosevelt Go Fly Club). Among the living members are Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Thomas Hitchcock Poloist Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, a journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of which all porkies well prefer not to talk. The pore is largely a matter family. From your list, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names-Adams, Ames, Amory, Cabot, Cushing, etc. (Two Years Before the Mast) Dana, novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman. " And of course the twins Winklevoss Facebook / The Social Network fame.
• Your favorite drink? A mixture of beer and gin.
Do you approve the college-age son to join an elite club that way? Or prefer to be one with all people?
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