Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered the University of Ghent as its youngest student, graduated in 1882 summa cum laude, promptly became an assistant professor of chemistry. He got a medal and a traveling scholarship, but also got married (to his senior professor's daughter), emigrated to the U. S. and went to work for a photographic supply manufacturer. Then he started his own consulting practice, invented a quick-action photographic printing paper called Velox, organized Nepera Chemical Co. to manufacture it. George Eastman of Eastman Kodak bought...
...eyes of a few incurable schoolboys, being tapped for Skull & Bones still ranks second only to being President of the U. S. Founded in 1832 by a group of disgruntled Phi Beta Kappa-rejects, Bones is the oldest and most sacred of Yale's six senior secret societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club, Book & Snake, Berzelius...
Every year, the second Thursday afternoon in May, about 200 hopeful juniors gather on the grass in Branford College court (until 1933 they stood by the Fence in front of Durfee on the old campus). At the stroke of 5, senior members of the societies, wearing their pins, black ties and blue suits, march through the crowd, tap their men. A tappee hustles (see cut) to his room, followed closely by his tapper, or shakes his head (refusal). Each society picks 15. Tapping usually ends when the Battell Chapel clock strikes 6, but in 1936 Wolf's Head, turned...
...senior societies take their men almost exclusively from the ranks of junior fraternities. Each society has a distinct character: e.g., Keys (Scroll & Key) usually picks rich, convivial boys. Bones chooses campus big shots, almost invariably taps the football captain-elect, chairman of the News, chairman of the Lit. head of Dwight Hall (campus Y. M. C. A.), leader of the Glee Club, a self-supporting student. Quip-sters say that Bones always taps 13 big men, one unknown and one Armenian...
...class revolted, stayed stubbornly in their rooms on Tap Day. The societies pursued them to their rooms, had no trouble filling their quotas. Next year, Tap Day returned to the campus. This year the Political Union held an unprecedented public debate, resolved (3840-17) that "the influence of the senior societies is not to the best interests of Yale...