Word: yaleness
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...with an impatient instructor. We had different philosophies about encouragement. The arena was packed—with BU fans, with BC fans, with Northeastern fans. Representing Harvard? Two small rows of band. I’m not going to call myself a super sports fan. I left the Harvard-Yale tailgate because I was cold, and, even after much explanation, I have no idea what a “down” is. It doesn’t make sense, and I refuse to believe otherwise. I also have little pep. Like almost everyone else at this school, I enjoy...
...100th anniversary of Geronimo's death, descendants of the Apache warrior filed a federal lawsuit against the secretive Skull and Bones society of Yale University demanding that the group - which it claims is in possession of Geronimo's remains - return them to his family. "I believe strongly from my heart that his spirit was never released," Geronimo's great-grandson Haryln Geronimo, 61, told the National Press Club...
...young Yale junior named William Russell founded the group after spending a year in Germany among members of some of the most mystical and elite clubs in the world, including organizations that mimicked the Enlightenment-era Illuminati. Russell returned to the U.S. determined to found a secret society of his own and "tapped" Alfonso Taft, whose son would later become President William H. Taft, to be among the first members of "The Brotherhood of Death," or as it was more formally known, "The Order of the Skull and Bones." Members worshipped Eulogia, a fake goddess of eloquence, glorified pirates...
...Skull and Bones formed at Yale University, the third-oldest school in the U.S. and an institution "known for its strange, Gothic elitism and its rigid devotion to the past," according to journalist (and Yale secret society alumnae) Alexandra Robbins, who published Secrets of the Tomb in 2002. Skull and Bones is not the only secret society at the school either: others include the Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head, Berzelius and Book and Snake, all of which like keeping tabs on one another, some in the form of dossiers that include "reliability ratings." Each group picks its members...
...Yale just upset Cornell. If Princeton wins, the team is a game back in the loss column, along with Columbia, for Ivy League first place...