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| x Mace and Chain |
Mace and Chain is the youngest "landed" secret society at Yale University. The society was founded in 1956 (four years after Manuscript), became inactive in the 1960s, and was revived in the 1990s. In 2001, it acquired a regular meeting place ...
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| x Scroll and Key |
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The Scroll and Key Society is a senior or secret society, founded in 1841 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the second oldest Yale secret society.
Scroll and Key was established by John Porter, with aid from several members of the...
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| x Wolf's Head |
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Wolf's Head Society is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, CT. W.H.S. is recomposed annually of fifteen or sixteen junior year Yale College students. Undergraduate members spend their senior year as a delegation...
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Berzelius is a secret society at Yale University named for the Swedish scientist Jöns Jakob Berzelius, considered one of the founding fathers of modern chemistry. Founded in 1848, 'BZ', as the society is called often, is the oldest of the societies...
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| x Book and Snake |
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The Society of Book and Snake is the fourth oldest secret society at Yale University. Book and Snake was founded at the Sheffield Scientific School in 1863 as a three-year society bearing the Greek letters Sigma Delta Chi . As other "Sheff"...
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| x Elihu |
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Elihu, founded in 1903, is the sixth oldest secret society at Yale University, New Haven, CT. While similar to Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head societies in charter and function, Elihu favors privacy over overt secrecy. Founded in...
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| x Manuscript Society |
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Manuscript Society is one of several senior secret societies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Founded in 1952, Manuscript is the second youngest of Yale's landed secret societies; that is, its alumni trust owns its building, or "tomb"....
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| x Sage and Chalice |
Sage and Chalice is the name of a secret society at Yale University. According to an article in the New York Times, Barbara Bush, the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, joined the society in preference to Skull and Bones, another secret...
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| x Sigma Chapter of St. Anthony Hall |
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The second chapter of St. Anthony Hall to be called Sigma, the chapter was founded at the Sheffield Scientific School in 1868 and later began considering all Yale students as prospective members. Unlike many other secret societies at Yale, St. A....
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| x Skull and Bones |
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Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell Trust Association, named for General William...
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| x Cyrus Vance |
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Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917–January 12, 2002) was the United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. He approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms...
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| x Dean Acheson |
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Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953, he played a central role in defining American...
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| x Anthony A. Williams |
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Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams (born July 28, 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. He had previously served as chief financial officer...
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| x Strobe Talbott |
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Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy...
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| x Trumbull College |
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Trumbull College is one of twelve undergraduate residential colleges of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
The college is named for Jonathan Trumbull, the last governor of the Colony of Connecticut and first governor of the State of...
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| x Branford College |
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Branford College is the oldest of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University.
Branford College was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle (built in 1917-21) into two parts: Saybrook and Branford. According to Robert Frost, it is...
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| x Calhoun College |
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Calhoun College is a residential college of Yale University.
In 1641, John Brockston established a farm on the plot of land that is now Calhoun College. After the Revolutionary War an inn was constructed that would later become the meeting place of...
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| x Davenport College |
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Davenport College (colloquially often referred to as D'port) is one of the twelve residential colleges of Yale University. Its buildings were completed in 1933 mainly in the Georgian style but with a gothic façade. The college was named for John...
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| x Ezra Stiles College |
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Ezra Stiles College is a residential college at Yale University, built in 1961 by Eero Saarinen. Architecturally, it is known for its lack of right angles. It is adjacent to Morse College.
In his report on the 1955-56 academic year, Yale President A...
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| x Jonathan Edwards College |
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Jonathan Edwards College is a residential college at Yale University. Established in 1932, it is the oldest of Yale's residential colleges. Students and alumni generally refer to the college by its initials J.E. It is Yale's only residential college...
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| x Morse College |
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Morse College is one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It is adjacent to Ezra Stiles College. The current Master is Frank Keil, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Linguistics....
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| x Pierson College |
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Pierson College (PC) is a residential college founded in 1933 at Yale University. The College takes its name from Abraham Pierson (1646-1707), one of the founders of the Collegiate School, which later became Yale University -- a statue of Abraham...
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| x Saybrook College |
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Saybrook College is one of the 12 residential colleges at Yale University. It was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle (built in 1917-1921) into two parts: Saybrook and Branford.
Each student room is decorated with panes of...
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| x Silliman College |
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Silliman College is a residential college at Yale University. It opened in September 1940 as the last of the original ten residential colleges, and includes buildings that were constructed as early as 1901. It is the largest college in terms of area...
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| x Timothy Dwight College |
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Timothy Dwight College, commonly abbreviated and referred to as "TD", is a residential college at Yale University named after two university presidents, Timothy Dwight IV and Timothy Dwight V. The college was designed in 1935 by James Gamble Rogers...
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| x Thornton Marshall | ||
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| x William Folberth | ||
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| x Tony Knowles |
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Anthony Carroll Knowles (born January 1, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in...
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| x David Dellinger |
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David Dellinger (August 22, 1915 – May 25, 2004), one of the most influential American radicals of the 20th century, was a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change.
Dellinger achieved peak notoriety as one of the Chicago Seven, protesters...
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| x Frank Shorter |
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Frank Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American distance runner and winner of the marathon race at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Born in Munich, Germany, where his father, physician Samuel Shorter, served in the army, Frank Shorter grew up in...
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| x William Proxmire |
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Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989.
Proxmire graduated from The Hill School (in Pottstown,...
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| x A. Peter Dewey |
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Albert Peter Dewey (1916-September 26, 1945), shot by accident. by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945. Dewey was the first American fatality in Vietnam, killed in the early aftermath of World War II.
Col. Dewey the younger son of Congressman...
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| x Fenno Heath |
Fenno Follansbee Heath, Jr. (December 30, 1926- December 5, 2008) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger of choral music.
Heath attended Yale University, where he majored in music and graduated in 1950. As an undergraduate he sang in the...
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| x Henry Ford II |
Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 — September 29, 1987), commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce", was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford. He was president of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 to 1960, chairman of the board and chief...
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| x Nicholas F. Brady |
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Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930, in New York City) was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989.
The son of Eliot...
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| x Porter J. Goss |
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Porter Johnston Goss (born November 26, 1938) is an American politician, who was a Director of Central Intelligence and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism...
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| x Kathleen Neal Cleaver |
Kathleen Neal Cleaver is a professor of law, known for her involvement with the Black Panther Party.
Kathleen Neal was born on May 13, 1945, in Dallas, Texas. Both of Kathleen’s parents had higher education; her father was a sociology professor at...
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| x Bob Woodward |
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Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is regarded as one of America's preeminent investigative reporters and non-fiction authors. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of...
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