Word: porcellian
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...female organizations join eight male final clubs—the oldest of which, the Porcellian Club, was founded...
...example, the Porcellian destroys its punch book “for everyone’s benefit,” according to a member of the organization who asked not to be identified because of the club’s strict policy of secrecy...
...Crimson has printed contents of final club records at least once before: in March 1994, the paper obtained the Porcellian punch book from the previous fall...
Harvard’s administration was put in a delicate position. Though the Med. Fac. had plagued its college for nearly a century, its members were often also part of the Porcellian and A. D. Clubs and enjoyed powerful positions in Northeastern society...
Ward writes smoothly and pleasantly about all these eccentrics. Even so, his young hero remains a remote, undeveloped figure. It might be argued that anyone who thought his failure to make the Porcellian Club was the greatest disappointment of his life had not led a very interesting life. The fact is that at the time of Roosevelt's marriage, when Ward's book ends, F.D.R. had not yet become F.D.R. It was only his later struggle with polio that added the necessary steel to his character. Ward is already at work on sequel. It cannot fail to reveal a stranger...