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Porcellian Club
The Porcellian Club is a men-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,"〔, p. 171: source for 1791 origins as the "Argonauts;" later named "The Pig Club", "The Gentlemen's Club", finally "The Porcellian". "Small as the membership has been, the roll of graduates shows many of the most famous of the Sons of Harvard, including Wendell Phillips, Channing, () Story, () Everett, Prescott, Adams, Palfrey, Charles Sumner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and John Lothrop Motley." Online at (Google Books )〕 or as 1794, the year of the roast pig dinner at which the club, known first as "the Pig Club"〔 p. 89: "...Harvard's still-extant Porcellian Club, which arose out of a legendary dinner of roast pig (hence the club's name) in 1794 at Moore's Tavern. Unlike (Beta Kappa ), the Porcellian's motto, ''Dum Vivimus Vivamus,'' indicates that they were not beguiled by concerns academical or even literary, but, rather by pure conviviality.〕 was formally founded. The club's motto, ''Dum vivimus vivamus'' (while we live, let us live) is literally Epicurean. The club emblem is the pig and some members sport golden pigs on watch-chains or neckties bearing pig's-head emblems.〔Sedgwick, John, "Brotherhood of the Pig", GQ: Gentlemen's Quarterly 58 (November 1988), p. 30, as quoted by pp. 27-28: ""My father was generally oblivious to the animal world, but he did have an unusual affection for pigs. Around our house... he had porcelain pigs, ceramic pigs, carved pigs, embroidered pigs, painted pigs.... They overran our living-room mantelpiece, swept over the tabletops, covered his bureau, popped up on his cuff links, watch chain and ties and even appeared on our drinking glasses and saltcellar.... Why all these pigs? Because my father was a Brother Porcellian... the pig is the club's emblem."〕〔 p. 461. (president ) Richard Whitney "had attended Groton and Harvard.... his clubs were the Links, the Turf, the Field, the Racquet and the Knickerbocker; from his watch chain there dangled the gold pig of Harvard's Porcellian."〕 The club was originally started by a group of 30 students from Massachusetts who wanted to avoid the dining halls and their food by roasting pigs.
The Porcellian is the iconic "hotsy-totsy final club,"〔 p. 130, "I ... pulled up in front of the Porcellian or Sphinx or Onyx or whichever hotsy-totsy final club it was"〕 often bracketed with Yale's Skull and Bones, Princeton's Ivy Club, Dartmouth's Sphinx Club, Rutgers' Cap and Skull, Cambridge's Pitt Club, and Oxford's Gridiron Club. A history of Harvard calls the Porcellian "the most final of them all."〔 p. 472〕 Also, an urban legends website mentions a belief that "if members of the Porcellian do not earn their first million before they turn 40, the club will give it to them."〔Mann, Elizabeth (1993), "The First Abridged Dictionary of Harvard Myths", ''The Harvard Independent'' December 9, 1993 pp.10-11 as quoted by the alt.folklore.urban website in (Harvard Legends )〕
==Founding==
According to a ''Harvard Crimson'' article of February 23, 1887:
An 1891 article from ''The Cambridge Chronicle'' recounts the early members of the club:
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