Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had Osiris. By . Simson Garfinkel ’87, PhD ’05 archive page; December 23, 2024.

Breaking with centuries-old tradition, Harvard is moving to eliminate its all-male final clubs, charging that the Porcellian, A.D., Fox, Fly, and other high-end frats are bastions of patriarchal ...

Porcellian Club. Founded in 1791, the club — heavy on legacies — doesn’t allow nonmembers beyond the bike room. “There’s an old wives’ tale at the Porcellian Club that if you don’t ...

The interior of the Porcellian club, 1909. A gray-haired alumnus had waved me in, but I wasn't supposed to be there. While first-year girls are encouraged to crowd Harvard's final clubs each ...

Women haven't been allowed into the Porcellian club at Harvard since it began 200 years ago. It's not the only club where women are banned.

For the 225 years that the Porcellian Club has existed, this exclusion has applied to all women. "Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian," read a 1940 Time Magazine story about the oldest of ...

“Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian,” read a 1940 Time Magazine story about the oldest of Harvard University’s secretive, all-male “finals clubs.” “Porkies keep up their Porkie ...

Still, if the indignant desperation of the Porcellian Club’s once-in-two-centuries outburst is any indication of how entitled some final club members feel to their men-only spaces, ...

The Porcellian Club hired a consulting firm to analyze the results of a 2015 survey of Harvard undergraduates about sexual assault.

Last week, Graduate President of the Porcellian Club Charles M. Storey ’82 issued a statement to The Crimson broadly criticizing the College’s pressure on the unrecognized final clubs to adopt ...