Word: elihu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign of success is to get into a fraternity-preferably such "Row Fraternities" as Zeta Psi, the Fence Club, or Delta Kappa Epsilon. Far above these stand Yale's six senior societies-Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Book and Snake, Wolf's Head, and Elihu-whose new members are picked each year when the junior class lines up on Tap Day in Branford College Court, waiting for the slap on the back from some senior member...
...while, the young school barely managed to stay alive. But soon celebrities from overseas began to come to its rescue. Sir Richard Steele sent complete files of the Tatler and Spectator, and Sir Isaac Newton sent a copy of his Principia. Finally, a plump, periwigged gentleman named Elihu Yale, a retired East India merchant and a former governor in Madras, sent the most substantial gift of all: ?562 worth of goods...
Another junior had a tougher decision to make. Struck from behind by an agent of Elihu, this junior paused briefly and then shook his head. A few moments later another tap came, coupled with the cry of "Bones." The junior nodded, grinning broadly...
Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Wolfshead, Book and Snake, and Elihu will each claim 15 members. When juniors turn down places in a group, additional men will be tapped until each society has filled its quota...
...school's students range from the sons of neighboring farmers to the son of the late General George S. Patton and the grandson of Elihu Root. Some parents pay as much as $6,000 a year; many pay almost nothing. Though 51% of boys get student aid, only a few staff men know who they are. All boys clean their rooms, wait on table, and tend the grounds...