The?Porcellian?Club,?or?called?the?Pig?Club,?is?a?male-only?final?chib?at?Harvard?University.?It?isthe?iconic?“hotsy-totsy1”final?club,?often?bracketed?with?Yale’s?Skull?and?Bones?and?Princeton’sIvy?Club.?The?club?emblem?is?the?pig.
“坡斯廉俱樂部”, 或“豬俱樂部”, 是哈佛大學(xué)里的一個只吸收男生的本科生俱樂部, 是標志性的“絕妙本科生俱樂部”。人們常把它和耶魯大學(xué)的“骷髏會”以及普林斯頓大學(xué)的“常青藤俱樂部”相提并論, 其會徽是一頭豬。
This?society?was?established?in?1791.?It?occupies?rooms?on?Harvard?street,?and?owns?a?libraryof?some?7, 000?volumes.?Its?members?are?taken?from?the?senior,?junior?and?sophomoreclasses,?about?eight?from?each?class.?The?origin?of?its?name?is?popularly?supposed?to?be?asfollows:
該社團1791年成立, 位于哈佛街上, 擁有藏書量為7000冊的圖書館。其成員是是從大四、大三和大二的學(xué)生中挑選出來的, 每一屆有8個人左右。“豬俱樂部”的名字常被認為是這樣得來的。
In?the?year?1791,?a?student?brought?a?pig?into?his?room?in?Hollis.?In?those?days?the?window-seats?were?merely?long?boxes?with?lids,?used?to?store?articles?in.?Said?student?having?anantipathy?to?the?proctor?who?roomed?beneath,?was?accustomed?to?squeeze?piggy’s?earsand?make?him?squeal?whenever?said?proctor?was?engaged?in?the?study?of?the?classics.?Theresult?would?be?a?rush?by?the?proctor?for?the?student’s?room,?where?the?student?was?to?befound?studying,?peacefully?seated?on?his?window-seat.?Piggy,?in?the?mean?time?had?beendeposited?beneath,?and?no?sound?disturbed?the?tranquility?of?the?scene.?On?the?departureof?the?hated?proctor,?a?broad?grin?would?spread?over?the?countenance?of?the?joker,?and?in?alittle?while?the?scene?would?be?repeated?with?variations.
1791年, 一個住在霍利斯學(xué)舍的學(xué)生把一只豬帶進了宿舍。那時候的窗臺只是有蓋子的長箱子, 用來存放物品。這個學(xué)生很討厭住在樓中的學(xué)監(jiān), 每當(dāng)學(xué)監(jiān)學(xué)習(xí)古典文學(xué)時, 他就掐小豬的耳朵, 讓小豬發(fā)出嚎叫聲。結(jié)果學(xué)監(jiān)就沖進了這個學(xué)生宿舍, 但卻發(fā)現(xiàn)這個學(xué)生平靜地坐在窗臺上學(xué)習(xí)。這時候小豬已被藏到了下面, 沒有一點聲音。討厭的學(xué)監(jiān)走了以后, 這個惡作劇者咧嘴笑了起來, 一會兒這樣的情景又重復(fù)出現(xiàn), 只是每次略有不同罷了。
But?when?it?was?rumored?that?his?room?was?to?be?searched?by?the?faculty,?the?jokerdetermined?to?cheat?them?of?their?prey.?So?he?invited?some?of?his?classmates?to?the?room,?and?the?pig?being?cooked,?all?present?partook?of?a?goodly?feast.?They?enjoyed?their?midnightmeal?so?much?that?they?determined?then?and?there?to?form?a?club?and?have?suchentertainments?periodically.?In?order?to?render?historical?the?origin?of?the?club,?and?also?to?giveit?a?classic?touch,?they?decided?to?call?it?the?Porcellian?from?Latin?“porcus”.?In?1831,?the?societybearing?the?name?of?the?“Order?of?the?Knights?of?the?Square?Table”was?joined?to?the?Porcellian,?as?“the?objects?and?interests?of?the?two?societies?were?identical. ”
但當(dāng)聽說他的房間要被系里檢査時, 惡作劇者決定騙他們一下。因此他把同學(xué)都邀請到他的房間, 把豬燉了, 大伙分享了一頓大餐。他們很喜歡這次宵夜, 于是當(dāng)場決定成立一個俱樂部, 定期舉辦這樣的活動。為了讓俱樂部的起源同歷史聯(lián)系起來, 并且讓它帶有經(jīng)典的味道, 這些人決定稱該倶樂部為“坡斯廉”, “坡斯廉”在拉丁語中是“非洲河豬”的意思。1831年一個名叫“方桌騎士的餐點”的社團加入了“坡斯廉”, 因為“兩個社團的目標和興趣是一模一樣的”。
In?1901?a?gate?to?Harvard?Yard,?directly?opposite?the?clubhouse,?was?erected?by?members?ofthe?Porcellian?Club?in?memory?of?Joseph?McKean?the?founder?of?the?Porcellian?Club.?The?gatefeatures?prominently?the?symbol?of?the?club,?the?pig’s?head,?and?is?a?famous?Harvardlandmark.
1901年, 為紀念“坡斯廉”俱樂部的創(chuàng)辦者約瑟夫?麥基恩, 俱樂部成員在俱樂部的正對面建立起一個通往哈佛園的大門。這個大門的顯著特色就是“坡斯廉”俱樂部的標志----頭豬, 現(xiàn)在這個大門是哈佛的一個標志性建筑。
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