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Gannonknight
April 25, 2018
If one already exists, consider me greatly offended, but I've recently read up on Yale's secret societies like Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key and I think it would do wonders for our street cred. Maybe it could be called “Kskull and Kbones,” I don't know. And no, the “k”s are not silent. Secret societies wouldÃâà...
Yale Daily News (blog)
April 25, 2018
That was one insight that David Alan Richards '67, a member of Skull and Bones who recently published a book about Yale's secret societies, provided Tuesday evening during a discussion at the New Haven Museum about the history of Yale's secret societies. Richards, whose latest book “Of Skulls andÃâà...
Connecticut Magazine
April 20, 2018
A member of Skull and Bones, and a Yale alumnus, Richards will shed light on the lesser-known stories of Yale's secret societies, from Phi Beta Kappa in the American Revolution—originally a social and drinking society—through Skull and Bones and its rivals in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Yale Daily News (blog)
April 13, 2018
After an unknown person or group began contacting Yale juniors under the pretext of tapping them for Skull and Bones, the storied society's class of 2018 issued a public announcement to the junior class earlier this month declaring that it would investigate and criminally prosecute whoever is responsibleÃâà...
New Haven Register
April 13, 2018
An unknown person or group has contacted Yale students “under the pretext of tapping them for Skull and Bones,” the Yale Daily News reports. The secret society's class of 2018 then “issued a ... seniors are reportedly asked to join each year. The society's building on High Street is known as the “Tomb.”Ãâà...
New Haven Independent
April 3, 2018
The Boule' is a black GREEK secret society based on another secret society founded at Yale University called Skull & Bones. The Boule's The founding member of the New York City chapter, WEB DuBois, said the Boule' was created to “keep the black professional away from the ranks of Marcus Garvey.
The National
March 28, 2018
In addition to the stormtrooper boots, gritty skull and bones rings resembling knuckle-busters are wrapped around her fingers. ... a dozencomic books and the 2013 Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider video games, Pratchett is satisfied that her version of Lara Croft is the one that's on the big screen.
Hartford Courant
March 27, 2018
p.m., author and Yale alumnus David Alan Richards will reveal the truth behind the mysterious world of Yale University's secret societies based on his definitive ... A member of Skull and Bones, and a Yale alumnus, Richards will shed light on the lesser-known stories of Yale's secret societies, from Phi BetaÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 25, 2018
At Yale, Lampert made connections that would be important to his future. His membership in the elite secretive fraternity Skull and Bones opened to him a rarefied world inhabited by the likes of George W. Bush and Stephen Schwarzman, now C.E.O. of the Blackstone Group. The holy grail among this set was GoldmanÃâà...
Yale Daily News (blog)
October 4, 2017
The recent release of an 821-page history book detailing the influential rise of secret societies at Yale — “Skulls and Keys: The Hidden History of Yale's ... Alexandra Robbins '98 — who wrote “Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League and the Hidden Paths of Power” in 2003 as John Kerry andÃâà...
The Cheat Sheet
December 31, 1999
The Tomb is headquarters for the secretive Skull and Bones society of Yale University. Members founded the society in 1856 when construction of The Tomb began. Now it consists of two medieval towers and a courtyard. It's said to hold the remains of Apache warrior Geronimo, who died more than 100Ãâà...
The Cheat Sheet
December 31, 1999
As a student at Yale, Bush served as captain of the baseball team, according to Town and Country. (He actually numbers among our most athletic presidents.) Bush also participated in cheerleading, and became a member of the Skull and Bones society. Next: This president avoided the draft by going to lawÃâà...
New Haven Register
December 31, 1999
''His average was .250 or .260, but he was a clutch hitter,'' recalled Jenkins, who, like Bush, was a member of the most secret of Yale's secret societies, Skull and Bones. ''We got to know each other pretty well. Even then, you could tell he was destined for big things.'' Bush's last visit to his alma mater was inÃâà...
WFSB
December 31, 1999
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WSHU
December 31, 1999
There are lots of stories and rumors about secret societies at elite colleges. Skull and Bones is the oldest and most notorious secret college society in America. Not much is known about what goes on at Skull and Bones, but you can easily find its headquarters on the campus of Yale University in New HavenÃâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
(HARTFORD, Conn.) — Skull and Bones, the secret society at Yale University, is warning of an impostor who has called some students purporting to recruit them and then asking them to complete a humiliating challenge. The campus society has figured prominently in books, films and conspiracy theories.
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