Word: skull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brickman died at the Hillel House on 5 Bryant Street from a sub-dural hemorrhage and a fractured skull. Police said at the time that the death was accidental...
Rumor shrouds the tombs thicker than their sagging ivy wines. Campus reports say that Skull and Bones men will leave the room when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping...
Such mysteries as the lugubrious drums, bells, and fish horns that echo in tombs during initiations, the awsome initials OTIRUNBCDIFT on the Skull and Bones catalog, and the Wolf's Head water bill-highest in New Haven--these are likely to attract the most callous student. Yet most students do not heel their way up the extra-curricular ladder for the sale goal of "going Bones," or at least they say they don't. The six tombs are more important as the extreme result of the Yale credo of success, and as an exaggerated example of it. For the spooks...
Brickman died October 28 from a subdural hemorrhage and a fractured skull supposedly received October...
...second year Law student died Saturday at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from a fractured skull and sub-dural hemorrhage supposedly received last Thursday...