Harvard University. Porcellian Club

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Porcellian Club (Harvard University)

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Porcellian Club of Harvard University

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The Porcellian Club is an all-male 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", or as 1794, the year of the roast pig dinner at which the club, known first as "the Pig Club" was formally founded. The club's motto, Dum vivimus vivamus (while we live, let us live) is Epicurean. The club emblem is the pig and some members sport golden pigs on watch-chains or neckties bearing pig's-head emblems In 1831, the society bearing the name of the "Order of the Knights of the Square Table", a debating society instituted in 1809, was joined to the Porcellian, as "the objects and interests of the two societies were identical

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