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THE SENIOR SOCIETIES.
I
Aristocracy of Undergraduate
Life at College.
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YALE’S FAMOUS FRATERNITIES.
The Height of the Junior’. Ambition Is
Election to Skull and Bones, Scroll and
Keys or Wolfs Head—How Members Are
Chosen.
Just about this time of the year the
Yale junior is worked up into a fine
frenzy of expectancy. The senior may
have his worries, the sophomore his
troubles and the freshman his inexperi
enced tremblings, but the junior is face
to face with a crisis in his college ca
reer. He wants to know whether' he is
going to be one of the fortunate few
chosen to become members of those
three fraternities which form the very
aristocracy of the college secret soci-
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K SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY HOUSE,
eties, or whether he will be left among
the disappointed majority who all
through the senior year look with secret
longing at the mysterious society houses
and cast envious glances at the weird
and strange symbols worn by the elect.
Secret societies there are at all col
leges. Most of them are the Greek letter
societies, some of which have chapters
or lodges in every university in the
country, like the renowned Phi Delta
Kappa, the Phi Kappa Sigma and oth
ers. To these organizations entrance is
comparatively easy, and the member
who is not given an opportunity to en
ter one of them is taken up by another.
But at Yale it is different. The
Greek letter societies exist there and
have big memberships, yet after the
close of the junior year the students
take little interest in them and regard
them merely as stepping stones to the
three more exclusive societies. Out of a
junior class of from 200 to 250 but 45
• can gain the coveted prizes, for each so
ciety elects only 15 members each out
of a class.
These three great societies are the fa
mous Skull and Bones, the Scroll and
Keys and the Wolf’s Head. “Bones,”
as it is called, is the oldest and was
founded in 1832. Ten years later was
organized “Keys,” and in 1884, after
many futile attempts to form a success
ful rival to the older societies, Wolf’s
Head was organized. In no other uni
versity in the world probably do secret
societies exert such a powerful influence
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as do these three senior societies at laie.
The untemfied “freshy” mw at first
sneer at them and affect to be indiffer
ent as to whether he is chosen or not,
but about the second year he loses this
idea, and when’ the time comes he is as
ready as any to sit on the anxious seat
There has been .a great deal of discus
sion as to whether this influence is a
bad or a good one.
Most of the fortunate 45 are those
who have in some way or other distin
guished themselvec. The editors of the
college papers are often, but not always
on the list. This undoubtedly serves as
a spur to the students, but perhaps the
best feature about the selections is that
the men chosen are always gentlemen
in the true sense of the word. No sneaks
or cads ever find their way into-these
societies.
Those who decry .these organizations
argue that they tend toward forming an
aristocracy and that the servile obse
quiousness with which the seniors are
treated by some juniors is a degrading
result. You can never get a society man
to discuss this proposition, however.
The manner of announcing the elec
tions of new members is rather unique
and interesting, even if it is denounced
as poppycock by some. Gn the eventful
afternoon the college men gather in
front of Durfee hall, the windows of
which are filled with pretty girls in gay
spring attire. The expectant juniors
gather in a big group and wait patiently
fiw the lightning to strike.
At last a young man may be seen ad
vancing from Alumni hall. He may be
EMBLEM OF THE WOLF’S HEAD SOCIETY.
the jolliest fellow in college, but now
he assumes a serious and melancholy
air. With sober tread he walks in and
out of the group, apparently searching
for some one who is not there. Finally
he gives a junior a heavy slap on the
shoulder, thus notifying him of his se
lection to become a member of ‘ ‘Bones. ’ ’
Then he retires. Soon a "Keys” man
appears and makes his selection. From
that time on the different society men
come rapidly until the whole 45 have
been chosen.
As each man is slapped on the shoul
der he promptly starts for his room,
his eyes cast down and looking neither
to the right nor the left. The senior who
has summoned him follows closely.
When they reappear, the junior is sur
rounded by a crowd of friends, who
cheer loudly and congratulate him on
his good fortune. It is very rare that a
man refuses an election to “Bones” or
“Keys.” There have been instances, but
they have been so few that they are em
balmed in college tradition as great
events. Sometimes a man who has befen
“tapped” for “Wolf’s Head” refuses
and waits for an invitation to become a
member of one of the other two societies,
but it is only when by some subtle
means he has become certain of the
subsequent summons.
The origin of “Bones” is somewhat
veiled in misty legend, but it is believed
that it is a of a university corps
founded in Germany centuries ago. The
hall of the Skull and Bones society is
one of the most picturesque structures
in New Haven. It is a windowless, ivy
covered building of brownstone that
stands opposite the campus. The home
of “Keys” is also window less, but the
society house of Wolf’s Head has its
walls plentifully pierced with them.
What these houses contain or what
mysterious rites are held therein is a
well guarded secret There is a Yale
legend to the effect that “Bones” hall
was invaded some 15 or 20 years ago by
irreverent outsiders. A pamphlet was
even printed, giving an alleged descrip
tion of the interior. On the ground
floor, according to the legend, is a lodge
room hung with black velvet, even the
walls being covered with it. In the up
per floor is" said to be the “holy of
holies,” the room known as 322, the
number which appears on the gold pins
of the “Bones” men. In this is an iron
safe containing only a bloody knife, a
relic of an old tragedy known to every
Yale man. Nothing else is said to have
been found more mystical than a lot of
class flags aud other relics.
These and other legends the freshman
hears with staring eyes during his first
few months in college, and right there
begins to foster an ambition to some day
penetrate those somber looking halls and
learn all the mysteries they contain.
The wearing of the pin is another
feature of the life of a senior society
man that is the subject of much con
jecture. They are said to wear their so
ciety pins on all occasions, sleeping dr
waking, and it is related that they take
a fearful oath never to part with them
for a moment. There is a story to the
effect that a “Bones” man, while bath
ing and holding his pin in his mouth,
according to custom, had the misfortune
to swallow the golden emblem. He
came very near dying, but finally recov
ered both his health and the pin.
Many are the weird stories which the
unsophisticated juniors are told as to
the proceedings that mark the sessions
of these senior societies. But their se
crets are, well guarded, and there is no
case on r< < ord where an alumnurf has
ever revealed even the smallest detail.
While the outward public demeanor of
the members is usually dignified and se
date tpoy are always jolly good fellows,
and it is probable that the initiations
have in them a good deal of what might
be called horse play.
THE ROME TEIBUNE, lUESDAY, JUNK 30. 1896.
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Few college men escape some sort of
hazing, for if they refuse to join the
various societies or fraternities that ex
ist, they are marked as the victims by
the practical jokers. Where all the in
genious nonsense originates and how it
is handed down from one class to an
other is in itself something of a mys
tery. Sooner or later, though, every
freshman hears the familiar songs, one
of which begins thus:
Swing oat the grinning skeleton I
Take off the coffin lid
And screw the freshman in it
Till his infant form is hidl
For he must know that he must do
Exactly as he’s bld,
For Phai Kai’s in her ancient glory.
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sacred seal” for instance. The freshman
is blindfolded and bound to a board.
After a lot of preliminary mummery he
hears a horse voice demand:
“Is the iron heated redhot?”
“Yea, verily,” comes the sepulchral
reply.
“Then let the sacred seal of Omega
Sigma Tau be burned into his flesh. ”
There is a moment of suspense, and
then the helpless initiate can feel the
heat of the instrument of torture. He
hears a hiss and experiences a dull
, pain in his bared arm, while the sick
ening odor of burning flesh adds to the
realism. But it is only imaginary pain
that he suffers, for the hot iron only
sinks into a piece of beefsteak and all
that touches his arm is a chunk of ice.
There are a hundred other antics
known to undergraduates, all of which
test the nerve of the poor freshman and
make the recollection of the initiation
night sink deep in his memory. Wheth
er or not the Yale seniors practice these
pranks only the initiated know, and
they never tell. Cyrus Sylvester.
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