Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ceremonies consist of the forty-five present members of the senior societies, Skull and Bones, Scroll & Key, and Wolf's Head, appearing one by one on the campus and every one slapping a member of the present junior class as a token of his election, ordering him to go to his room, where he is formally notified of his election in private. --Boston Transcript...
...Haven, Conn., May 15.--As a result of the annual Tap Day, the following men have been elected to the Senior Societies at Yale. Skull and Bones: DeForest Van Slyck, James McHenry, Joseph Weir Sargent, L. G. Adams, Daniel R. Winter, Henry R. Luce, John M. Hincks, Harry P. Davison, Theodore L. Safford, Morehead Patterson, Briton Hadden, Alfred C. Schermerhorn, Frank P. Hefflefinger, Francis T. Hobson, and David L. Ingalls...
...that time all people wore loose flowing robes. The black color is merely an adaptation of the monastic habit. Similarly, the skull caps worn by ecclesiastics to protect their tonsored heads were copied by the educational institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...
...until the latter part of the third quarter that on a trick play Pollard was able to carry the ball over the goal line. But it was a costly victory, for five of the Brown team were seriously injured and one was removed to the hospital with a fractured skull...
Carl Anthonson, of Roxbury, the painter who fractured his skull by falling from a ladder while at work in the Widener Memorial Library on Monday died at the Cambridge Hospital yesterday morning at 12.20 o'clock as a result of his injuries. This is the first fatal accident which has occurred in the construction of the building. There have been several serious falls and injuries especially last spring, but in all other cases the men have recovered...