and option to coeducational institutions". Joseph McKean Gate In 1901 a gate to Harvard Yard, directly opposite the clubhouse, was erected. According to a notice published in The Harvard Crimson on March 20, 1909: A gate is to be erected at the entrance to the Yard between Wadsworth House and Boylston Hall. It is to be erected by members of the Porcellian Club in memory of Joseph McKean 1794, S.T.D., LL.D. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, Oratory and Elocution, and also the founder of the Porcellian Club. The gate prominently features the club's symbol, a boar's head, directly above the central arch and is a famous Harvard landmark. Notable members Joseph Alsop (1932) – journalist, author of The 168 Days (1938) regarding FDR's plan to pack the Supreme Court; great-nephew of Theodore Roosevelt August Belmont Jr. (1875) – For whom Belmont Park and the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown are named Charles E. Bohlen (1927) – diplomat, ambassador and expert on the Soviet Union William Astor Chanler (1895) – soldier, explorer and US congressman from New York (1899–1901) John Jay Chapman (1884, L.L.D. 1887) – author, Emerson and Other Essays, translator of Dante, Sophocles; brother-in-law of William Chanler Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1829) – associate justice of the US Supreme Court; wrote dissent in the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision and resigned from the Supreme Court as a matter of conscience over the decision Richard Henry Dana, Jr. – author, Two Years Before the Mast Edward Everett – U.S. Secretary of State, president of Harvard, congressman and senator from Massachusetts, 15th governor of Massachusetts Hamilton Fish III – college football All-American and congressman from New York (1910) Miles Fisher – American film and television actor Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. – author, poet, and professor at Harvard Medical School Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. – associate justice of the Supreme Court, professor at Harvard Law School William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (1858) – son of Robert E. Lee; great-grandson of George Washington through his mother's side (Custis family); grandson of Revolutionary War General Richard Henry "Lighthorse" Lee. Major general, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America. Surrendered with his father at Appomattox Henry Cabot Lodge – American statesman, congressman and senator from Massachusetts, and historian Dan Sullivan – U.S. senator from Alaska James Russell Lowell – poet Theodore Lyman (1858) – Union officer on George Meade's staff. Cousin