Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale undergraduates were astounded on Wednesday by the appearance of the members of the Skull and Bones Society, with their badge pins on their breasts instead of on their neckties, where according to the old tradition they could alone be worn. Explaining this custom and the change, the New Haven News says: "Alongside of it has grown up a system of actions and many ways dubbed 'poppycock' by the college world at large. This found manifestation in many ways, all marked by an assumption of mystery and standoffishness in everything that related to the societies in any way, however distant...
...spring election to membership in the Scroll and Key and the Skull and Bones, the two leading secret societies at Yale took place this week. Two-thirds of the members were from the East, while the rest were divided between the West and South...
...matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed by a dash. Yet the anecdote is otherwise well told. "Phoebe Southerly" follows; being an account of the conversation of a skull, suspended from the ceiling by a cord, with a young man. The picture of the man with his pioe half way to his mouth listening to the words of a pretty skull, which now and then smiles oddly is ludicrous, to say the least...
Before you go to the ginnastica, call at J. F. Noera's and examine his 28 different colors of Jerseys, Tights, Skull Caps, Sweaters, etc. He can show you more variety, better quality, and later novelties in gymnasium goods than any other store. His advice is, save your money and avoid fancy prices when you can get the same article for 30 per cent less at 436 Harvard street...
Before you go to the ginnastica, call at J. F. Noera's and examine his 28 different colors of Jerseys, Tights, Skull Caps, Sweaters, etc. He can show you more variety, better quality, and later novelties in gymnasium goods than any other store. His advice is, save your money and avoid fancy prices when you can get the same article for 30 per cent. less at 436 Harvard street...