Long before he became renowned as a composer of some of our most enduring songs, Cole Porter spent a year as a student at Harvard Law School. He left after a year, which should not have been the source of any shame, considering that more than a quarter of his classmates did not return for a second year. While a law student, Porter wrote two moot court briefs – and two musicals. Like many song composers, he reused his work. Some of the songs that he wrote at Harvard Law School were performed during his first Broadway show. This book is the first to: * write about Cole Porter’s inquiry to the Harvard Law dean about enrolling. * write about Porter’s second moot-court brief. (His first moot-court brief has been published and discussed.) * write about the dean’s assessment of Porter in the dean’s notebook. * identify previously published photographs of Porter as probably showing him in his private dormitory during his one year of law school. * discuss in detail his enrollment in the Harvard Music Department. This book disassembles and debunks the three major accounts of how Porter came to leave Harvard Law School, and proposes a fourth reason as an alternative. It debunks other minor fables that have arisen about Cole Porter at HLS.