Harvard University. Porcellian Club

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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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referencedIn Papers of John Henry Tudor Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Records of Med. Fac. : letters advocating the abolishment of Med. Fac, 1905. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham) Garrison papers, 1893-1990 Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
referencedIn Theodore Roosevelt scrapbook, 1876-1881 Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
referencedIn Appleton, Nathan, 1843-1906. Scrapbooks, 1845-1895, bulk: 1859-1895 Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Porcellian Club medal, circa 1791 Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Edward Sanford Martin correspondence and compositions, 1882-1939 (inclusive), 1900-1938 (bulk). Houghton Library
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associatedWith Appleton, Nathan, 1843-1906. person
associatedWith Garrison, Lloyd K. (Lloyd Kirkham), b. 1897. person
associatedWith Harvard University corporateBody
associatedWith Harvard University. Med. Fac. (Student organization) corporateBody
correspondedWith Martin, Edward Sanford, 1856-1939 person
associatedWith Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 person
associatedWith Tudor, John Henry, 1782-1802. person
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