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The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour

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The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
The Harvard Student-Led Walking Tour
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+1 617-495-1573

Address:
Harvard Information Center, Smith Campus Center, Cambridge, MA 02138

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 is Epicurean. The club emblem is the pig and some members sport golden pigs on watch-chains or neckties bearing pig's-head emblems. 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, often bracketed with Yale's Skull and Bones, Princeton's Ivy Club, Dartmouth's Sphinx Club, Cambridge's Pitt Club, and Oxford's Bullingdon Club. A history of Harvard calls the Porcellian the most final of them all.
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