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...Henry Luce (founder of Time magazine) actually laid naked in a coffin and told the tales of his early sex life during his Skull and Bones initiation, or if William F. Buckley jumped into a mud pie as part of his hazing, or whether any of the three Bush Bonesman (Prescott, H.W., and W.) really received a gift of $15,000 and the guarantee of a lifetime of financial security upon being selected - all these rumors, publicized over the years by Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times and numerous independent book authors, might never be known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skull & Bones Society | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...comes to college students acting like fools, Vayner was just the beginning. This year alone, there was the candidate for class president at Princeton accused of setting a squirrel on fire; the University of Pennsylvania grad student found to be commuting to class from prison; the Skull and Bonesman arrested for burning an American flag still attached to a New Haven home. For the sake of all the moms and dads reading this, we won’t even get into kitchen sex at Brown, testes flambé at Cornell, or one fine arts major’s vision...

Author: By Chris Beam and Nick Summers | Title: Blogging the Ivy League’s Follies | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...members his entire past sex life. However, no member will admit to these trials, and "[the members] are legendary for the lengths to which they'll go to avoid prying interrogation. The mere mention of the words "skull and bones" in the presence of a true-blue Bonesman, such as Blackford Oakes, the fictional hero of Bill Buckley's spy thriller, 'Saving the Queen', will cause him to 'dutifully leave the room, as tradition prescribed...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: Public and Private: A Look at Princeton and Yale's Exclusive Clubs | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...rebellious Bonesmen vow that if the board does not relent, Bones will simply meet elsewhere next year. "Our main objective is communication between members," says Bonesman Douglas Webster. "That can be done anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campuses Rattling the Bonesmen | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...classmates cheered and then tried to figure out whether the Bonesman's first refusal was a heavy gamble or whether he had been forewarned of election to Skull and Bones...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Traumatic Day for Yalies As 90 Get Old Society Tap | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

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