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Skull and Bones admitted its first black member in 1965, and the president of Yale's gay student organization in 1975. Yale became coeducational in 1969, prompting some other secret societies such as St. Anthony Hall to transition to co-ed membership, yet Skull and Bones remained fully male until 1992. The Bones class of 1971's attempt to tap ...
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Jun 21, 2018 · The first tomb at Yale was Skull and Bones, completed in 1856, about 25 years after the society was founded. Alumni put up the money of the project, forming a corporation to buy land directly...
The tomb would have many followers: first Delta Kappa Epsilon, with a windowless, two-story, red brick building in 1861; later Scroll and Key, with the nationally admired Moorish Revival–style structure that still stands at Wall and College.
May 15, 2012 · The Skull and Bones Tomb is a bare, symmetrical, sandstone building and the quintessential Yale tomb…imposing, windowless, and full of secrets. It was built in 1856, and has had wings and other...
May 8, 2015 · These photos, of unknown date, are likely from a long-ago break-in at the Skull and Bones hall. They appear to show rooms in the rear block of the tomb, which was added in 1883. Though the interior is kept very secret today, it wasn’t always so.
History. Founded in 1848, 'BZ', as the society is called often, is the third oldest society at Yale and the oldest of those of the now-defunct Sheffield Scientific School, the institution which from 1854 to 1956 was the sciences and engineering college of Yale University.
Jul 5, 2019 · The society was founded in 1832 by William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft – father of future president and Supreme Court chief justice William Howard Taft – and at the time it consisted of 14 Yale seniors.
