Porcellian Club

The Porcellian Club is a men's-only 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, we shall live) is literally Epicurean. The club emblem is the pig and some members sport golden pigs on watch-chains or neckties bearing pig's-head emblems. 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...