When a newly initiated member of the Porcellian Club complained last year that sitting in a leather chair and singing praises to the walls was not the stimulating experience he had expected from ...

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At Harvard it is called the Pierian Sodality ... Pierians was first violin Nicholas Longworth (also member of the Porcellian Club), later Speaker of the House of Representatives.

When a newly initiated member of the Porcellian Club complained last year that sitting in a leather chair and singing praises to the walls was not the stimulating experience he had expected from ...