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Article: Trinity Church, Boston.(Books about Antiques.)(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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Of all the social clubs at Harvard College, the Porcellian is the most exclusive. It is not a very large club, just as Boston, down the Charles River from Cambridge, is not a very large city. At least in the nineteenth century, the city was a benign oligarchy, and perhaps the Porcellian was too, although that was a secret to all but its members. At all events, members of the club had a disproportionate influence on what happened in the city, for which it was an incubator of movers and shakers to be.
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Thus it is hardly surprising that when Trinity Church was built between 1872 and 1877, the powers behind the pulpit included seven ...