A tunnel is also described by these explorers, at the end of which can be found a chamber with a coffin. We interview between 40 and 80 people for the 16 spots we have available, one society member said. Right: Book & Snake Tomb, Yale University, New Haven, CT. The target audience is children WebComment on this article. Parody sketches and segments include Martha Yales most infamous secret society existed to secure that generational succession and nurture the ambitions of young, aspiring elites. One or two came from the baseball, football or boating teams. Uploaded by As Ive explained in my books, lectures, videos and online articles for close to two decades, this is the meaning behind many Masonic Tracing Boards, which depict a solar right side (marked Jachin) balanced by a lunar left side (marked Boaz). 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WebBetween the Lions: Created by Kathryn Mullen, Norman Stiles, Christopher Cerf, Lou Berger, Michael K. Frith. Up until the middle of the 1950s, all juniors who had aspirations to join a secret society gathered like cattle in a college courtyard, he told The Times. on June 6, 2022. The people who have negative feelings about the process and the institutions themselves probably have a very distorted conception of what actually goes on, said one Griffin society member, who wished to remain anonymous. Initially, the Greyfriars, as members were known, chose not to be a secret but rather a private club. Several hundred students, and ladies with their escorts gathered to witness the ceremony, W. E. Decrow wrote in his 1882 book Yale and The City of Elms. Senior members approached the chosen junior and asked him to go back to his room. WebAccording to members of a few different societies, the standard process is for a society to draw up an initial list of 40 to 80 people, hold a first round of interviews, and then deliberate to cut the list in half. The ancient eight consortium refers to those eight societies Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Wolfs Head, Book and Snake, Elihu, Berzelius, Mace and Chain, St. Elmos that were first founded at Yale, and that have a consistent understanding about tap night policies. Only one student said he or she did not know the societies existed. And by now, hasnt just about everyone seen someone they know running naked across Old Campus, or in Sterling Memorial Library, or on the Womans Table or at Yorkside? necessarily reflect the views of Yale or its officers. This is one of many connections that links Book & Snake to ancient Greece, a center of philosophy, art, architecture, and sacred geometry, where the Great Work of spiritual transformation was practiced for thousands of years. Yales big men are no longer all white, Anglo-Saxon and class-obsessed. A current Scroll and Key member, however, thought that the scope of societies influence was smaller. Esoterically, the torch symbolizes the inner soul, the centered higher Self beneath the changing world of duality in which the lower self lives. This balanced duality is expressed in part by the imagery visible on the imposing wrought-iron fence that surrounds the Book & Snake tomb. Members meet every Thursday and Sunday of each week in a building they call the Tomb. Beneath the surface on which these buildings sit, a subterranean campus secret has captured the attention of intrepid Yale students for generations: a labyrinth of tunnels connecting the buildings occupies the blocks between York, Elm, Grove and College Streets on Yales central campus. Wednesday at 8 p.m. was the official beginning of the tap season, when the ancient eight societies decided to begin handing out bids to juniors. Thats the reason I was drawn to societies because I thought it was a beautiful ideal.. WHEN Friday, March 3rd, 2023 1:30 PM - 3:30 P.M. Its like when someone says, I have a secret! The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. WebHarkness Memorial Tower has become a symbol for Yale University. With no beginning and no end, the circle symbolizes eternity, and, by extension, our eternal and divine god-like nature (i.e., the soul or higher Self within us). And a four-year society, which initiates refer to only as C&W, was founded by members of the class of 2011. ; Jamaica Louise James.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 8x09 - Trosclair and the Alligator; The Coyote and the Rabbit.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 8x10 - I Don't Want a Birthday Party; Knuffle Bunny.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x01 - Night Shift; Under Construction.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x02 - Bugs; Beetle Bop.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x03 - Cliff Hanger, the Pheasant, and the Phone; Terrific.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x04 - River Story; Salmon in Alaska.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x05 - Pigs in Hiding; Stop That Pickle!.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x06 - Priceless Gifts; King Midas.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x08 - The Emperor's New Clothes; The Hungry Coat.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x09 - Like a Windy Day; Winter Is the Warmest Season.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 9x10 - Angelina's Island; Chinese New Year.ia.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x01 - Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x02 - The Lost Rock.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x03 - Little Big Mouse.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x04 - Farmer Ken's Puzzle.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x05 - Shooting Stars.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x06 - The Hopping Hen.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x07 - Touching the Moon.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x08 - The Boy Who Cried Wolf.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x09 - Fuzzy Wuzzy, Wuzzy.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x10 - Lionel's Antlers.mp4, Between the Lions - 1x11 - To the Ship! How many are there? Two seniors, Alfonso Taft and valedictorian William Huntington Russell, both 1833, founded the order after Russell did not receive an invitation to the prestigious academic secret society Phi Beta Kappa. Open secrets Once a year, Yales hush-hush senior societies engage in some cryptic but very public initiation rituals. The twin lion statues motif has gone unrecognized by scholars and researchers, as Ive been pointing out my books, videos, lectures and published articles for close to two decades. Between the Lions - 1x03 - Little Big Mouse. WebThe Yale Surgical Society will also apply knowledge gained in our profession after training to inform the Yale surgical programs of the insight gained and to sponsor our successors in their efforts after training. In addition, each year there are Franke Visiting Fellows and postdoctoral fellows in the humanities. The great and the best. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to www.RichardCassaro.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Another important collegiate secret society on the Yale University campus is Book & Snake. WebThis is the first in-person event of the long-running AI Governance Series collaboration between the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy Global TechNet Working Group and the Wikimedia Initiative of the Yale Information Society Project (virtual option also available). Our discussion will cover topics from South Asian advocacy to discrimination against South Asians. 2. When a group of 15 students are selected for their talents, rather than their social status, intellectual sparks are bound to fly. Which part is secret? Clay Dean GRD 00, current president of Manuscript and a vice president at New Havens New Alliance Bank, said his society has assembled a wide variety of intellectual tastes to ensure lively night-time discussion. In my 2011 book, Written in Stone, I showed how ancient temples built by far-flung civilizationsespecially the pyramid culturesall shared this same three-in-one pattern. The triangular pediment on the Book & Snake tomb is a three-in-one symbol, just like the caduceus posts. Left: The magic circle of the magician. But certain members shortly chose secrecy over privacy and the doors of the Wolfs Head tomb were closed. Like the ancient Greek Temple of Nike on which it is patterned, the Book & Snake tomb is composed of smooth white marble ashlars. The ouroboros serpent is a symbol of the eternal soul within us, that feeds on the very bodies it uses to manifest itself on the material plane. The freshman societies, which tapped promising students in their senior years at the leading boarding schools of the time and fresh off their first train to campus, were short-lived. It was founded by William Kingsley 1843, John Porter and William Huntington, both 1842, who were dissatisfied with the fact that Huntington had not been tapped for Bones. Author and Yale alumnus David Alan Richards will reveal the truth behind the mysterious world of Yale Universitys secret societies based on his definitive and The fence is decorated with 18 massive caduceus posts. Top: Stylized sets of anthemion & palmette leaves decorate the capitals of the columns on the Book & Snake tomb. The greatest opposites are at the extreme, with the slow turtle on one side balanced energetically by the speedy rabbit on the other. It's Green! Indeed, they are not even all men. Asked what the mission of his/her society was, an inebriated society member offered the following explanation: to breed eternal bloodspawn between its members., We grow community: How urban agriculture has sprouted in New Haven, Title IX retaliation policies prevent clubs from expelling alleged assailants, LUCAS: Yale, its time to rethink Eli Whitney, Students rally for religious housing accommodations, 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 | (203) 432-2400. Stylized sets of anthemion and palmette leaves decorate the capitals (see image below) , forming an alternating pattern of balanced duality that was celebrated in ancient Greek art and architecture. To be sure, the tap lines no longer play much of a role in society choices. Ive gotten some really cryptic messages slipped under my door, and some really short phone messages from blue phones. Freshman year for Harvard guys is shit, a Harvard freshman said. Everything has a solar right half representing light, male, fire, balanced by a lunar left half representing dark, female, water. This is a vicious group of interbreeding bloodlines seeking to impose their will and their structure of life upon the global population., Perhaps he is right, perhaps he is wrong. In short, the lion symbolizes the very balanced duality that every Book & Snake initiate presumably strives to achieve. November 10, 2020. Between the Lions - 10x03 - City Mouse and Country Mouse; Happy Hocky Family Moves to the Country! The societies are funded by wealthy alumni that have passed through its ranks. 26:40. Humph! The Yale community and even the greater community are positively affected by these kids and what they learn, Clay said. There once were freshman, sophomore, junior and senior societies to structure the social scene of the University. Its a kind of utopia because its the best combination of informed conversations in an ideal setting which is to say, around a dinner table.. In the ancient Greek Mystery Schools, the very basis of the Great Work was personified by the myth of the hero Theseus slaying the Minotaur, a metaphor that describes an initiates higher eternal Self (the spiritual soul) mastering his / her lower animal self (the material body). Masonic Tracing Board showing sun, moon, and centered Eye. To be tapped is to be, on Yales campus and around the world, what Stover would deem a big man.. It was founded in 1832 and membership is open to an elite few. I dubbed this pattern a Triptych (a phrase I coined) and I showed how the universality of Triptych Temples marks evidence of a Universal Religion or Sacred Science shared worldwide in Antiquity. Alcala de Hernares, Madrid, Spain. The left side of the book signifies the past. The right side the future. The centered spine of the book, like the human spine, balances the twin sides, thus shifting focus towards the center, and pointing to the eternal now moment. Indeed, many underclassmen have no contact with the societies until tap night. However, when I went down to meet the group, I was a little disappointed when I realized that I had never heard of them., We grow community: How urban agriculture has sprouted in New Haven, Title IX retaliation policies prevent clubs from expelling alleged assailants, LUCAS: Yale, its time to rethink Eli Whitney, Students rally for religious housing accommodations, 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 | (203) 432-2400. In many societies, members do not know each other before they are inducted. This was done to, as Decrow put it, secure representative men from all the leading student interests in the class.. It is not uncommon for seniors to decline taps today because they feel they have many time commitments and existing social obligations. But lets not forget the conspiracy theorists. In my work, Ive shown how in some instances a pine cone symbol, signifying the pineal gland (the name modern science has given the ancient Third Eye) often appears atop the caduceus, symbolizing our Third Eye. Its one of the meanings behind the anthemion and palmette pattern. Welcome to the Yale Alumni Weve become almost desensitized to nominated pre-taps belting out Hit me, baby, one more time! or unabashedly wearing signs with self-deprecating remarks scrawled on them. The eternally circling serpent is shown consuming itself. The show was produced by WGBH and Sirius Thinking, Ltd. in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting and ran for 10 seasons on PBS Kids, from 2000 to 2010.The show won multiple Daytime Emmy awards over the course of its run. The Great Work is the uniting of opposites.. 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Flanking this Deity are sets of symmetrically balanced opposites, all mirror-images of each other. The number 322 appears in Skull and Bones insignia and is widely reported to be significant as the year of Greek orator Demosthenes death. Heraclitus wasnt alone; this pairs of opposites teaching formed the basis of most Greek philosophy. The Three Little Pigs.mp4, Between the Lions - 5x02 - The Carrot Seed The Empty Pot.mp4, Between the Lions - 5x03 - Wings What's in the Box.mp4, Between the Lions - 5x04 - A Shower of Stars Two Moons and One Lagoon.mp4, Between the Lions - 5x05 - The Golden Meaty Awards.mp4, Between the Lions - 5x06 - Click, Clack, Moo The Little Red Hen.mp4, Between the Lions - 5x07 - Sylvester and the Magic Pebble I Miss You, Stinky Face.mp4, Between the Lions - 5x10 - It's Red! Book & Snake uses an interesting mix of ancient and esoteric symbols to convey occult meanings that only the initiated can properly understand. Honestly I dont think it affects it [the social structure] that much, because by the time someones been tapped for a [senior] society, theyve already stopped being part of extracurriculars, the member said. Every society is different, so you cant just watch The Skulls and think you know everything.. In 1780, students created a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, a secret academic society begun at the College of William and Mary four years earlier. The reverse side of the U.S. dime shows a caduceus-like symbola torch flanked by twin branches, an oak branch and olive branch. Wolf's Head Society is a senior society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. A member of Skull and Bones, and a Yale alumnus, Richards will shed light on the lesser-known stories of Yales secret societies, from Phi Beta Kappa in the American Revolutionoriginally a social and drinking societythrough Skull and Bones and its rivals in the 19th and 20th centuries. Honorary members are elected. An open book shows the words pasado or yesterday on one page and futuro or future on the other page. We might surmise from this that the original aim of many collegiate secret societies that pattern themselves after ancient Greecei.e., Delta Delta Delta, Sigma Chi, Chi Omega, or Psi Upsilonwas to initiate new members into the ancient Sacred Science teaching, and to help those new members triumphantly achieve the Great Work: In my third year at Cambridge, I devoted myself consciously to the Great Work, understanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the constraints, accidents, and deceptions of material existence.. Leviathan, a senior society, was founded by the class of 2007. Some read aloud from random books at the Womens Table or in the Commons Rotunda. 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm. Containing metaphysical energy within a confined space creates a concentration of power and intentionwhich helps to awaken some of the sublime energies within the body that stimulate transformation. There, the student was offered an invitation to a group, which was, Decrow states, practically always accepted.. WebThey described the strategic goals of the Palestine Liberation Organization and exposed the widespread denial of their importance by the political class of Israeli society, the media, and the influencers of mainstream opinion. WHEN Friday, March 3rd, 2023 1:30 PM - 3:30 P.M. Secure taps in undergraduate organizations have also declined. The esoteric architecture encoded into the Skull & Bones tomb, Yale Universitys most famous secret society, indicates that secret societies have not always been formed for evil purposes. The three-in-one pattern on the tombs facade mimics the three-in-one patterns on the facades of many ancient temples: The Triptych faade on the Skull & Bones tomb (1856) mimics the Triptych faade of the ancient Egyptian Shrine of Seti II. WebBETWEEN THE LIONS is produced by WGBH Boston, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., and Mississippi Public Broadcasting, and is funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the U.S. Department of Education's Ready To Learn All of them were active in the formative Yale Political Union, with Calabresi and McIntosh serving in consecutive years as president of the organization. Liberman had volunteered for Reagan in his campaigns in 1976 and 1980, and McIntosh had joined the effort in 1980. COPO, as it is known, is a non-profit organization that works to assist low income immigrant families, particularly South Asians and Muslims. With this aim in mind, the perfectly cut, smooth white marble ashlars that constitute the Book & Snake tomb seem to have served both a symbolic and a practical purpose. Even now, we watch our Gossip Girl and laugh as Chuck tries to infiltrate what he calls the crme de la crme of secret societies, Skull and Bones. Every year, the club selects 15 new members. Web9 National Resilience, Politics and Society Volume 2, No. In Wolfs Heads seemingly decrepit tomb, on Yale Daily News reporter observed a rather clean lobby; stairs leading down to a basement on the right, a bulletin board of Egyptian gods split into two groups (In Egypt and Out of Egypt) to the left and a bust of a female feline head on the wall (perhaps that of a lioness?). Soon, the chosen members shaped all aspects of Yale life; more than two-thirds of the members of the Yale Corporation the Universitys highest-governing body from 1872 to 1936 were alumni of Skull and Bones or Scroll and Key. Not only does it force you to see the world through completely different lenses than the ones you were used to, but it also forces you to rethink your ideas through these lenses, altering them or finding ways to make them stronger.. 26:40. This year is no different than any other, with the induction process being received by the Yale community with mixed emotions. Today, more than ever, Yales secret societies are moving away from the direct tap method, which contributes to the generalization that society taps are heavily influenced by social politics and networking. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Are you Yale secret society material? Its also one of the most enigmatic. The first break-in to Skull and Bones was by a society that called itself File and Claw in 1877. Ancient Greek pottery depicting the hero Theseus slaying the Minotaur. David Alan Richards is a graduate of both The society is one of the reputed Big Three societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolfs Head. Like the caduceus, the triangle is a three-in-one symbol, showing twin opposing forces, symbolized by the twin lower points of the triangle, unified by the apex into a single whole. In his capacity as a field investigator, he hosts travel adventures to archaeological sites worldwide. Yale Universitys Skull and Bones (Established in 1832) Skull and Bones is undoubtedly the most prominent and well-known among the secret societies at Yale and among the Ivy League secret societies. Its the same circular symbolism depicted by the rings in the mouths of the lions on the Book & Snake tombs entrance. WebBetween the Lions is an American childrens television series designed to promote reading. Keeping track of the dozens of senior societies at Yale is not easy. Patterned after an ancient Greek original, the Statue of Liberty holds a torch upward, conveying the life and freedom of an Olympian. The juniors had fraternities. For thousands of years, the triangle has symbolized a man or woman who has found his or her soul within or divinity within. Renaissance artists depicted the triangle above a seeker or hero who was able to accomplish this Great Work, including Jesus Christ and St. Ursula, as seen in the following works of art: Left: St. Ursula and Her Companions with Pope Ciriacus and St Catherine of Alexandria (1608). Case in point: In an attempt to experience the mystery firsthand, students try and break into society tombs all the time. 1. Lion Heart team in NYC. On the contrary, many have arisen from the highest aspirations of the human mindthe desire for knowledge of eternal verities., Nesta Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements. To an extent, Yalies now agree. Between the Lions - 1x01 - Pecos Bill Cleans Up the West. Now, on that hallowed Thursday in April, underclassmen scurry through ranks of howling seniors in masks and robes leading around baffled juniors, usually costumed and blindfolded. Drawing from my book, Written in Stone. Left: Ancient Temple of Nike, Greece. A stable system of eight class societies (two competing chains of four class societies each) was in place by the late 1840s. For the 2007-08 class of Bones, one member was a ornithologist, a handful were from the cultural and international student communities, one was a Yale Daily News editor and several had accomplished large-scale community service projects. Society members interviewed said the societies allowed them to meet new people and discover new interests. With Anthony Asbury, Jennifer Barnhart, Peter Linz, Fred Newman. Being tapped is both an invitation to be a part of a Yale tradition and a stroke of the ego. Yale has come a long way since its first secret society, Skull and Bones, was founded in 1832. His articles have appeared in print journals and web media around the globe; and he has delivered well-received lectures about his findings in the UK, Italy, Peru, Egypt, Spain, Mexico, Cyprus, and the U.S. But some information about secret societies isn't as clandestine as some might think. Yale's "landed societies" those that meet in tombs or halls are registered with the IRS as charitable organizations. One of the societies on our list, the Elizabethan Club, is not a "secret society" per se but an elite social club that owns a house on campus. 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The towers are empty and contain a chamber with candles and a chopping-block, a basin with two carved skeletal figures leaning over it full of red liquid and lots of bats. This is how savvy sophomore Hugh Le Baron explains the world of Yale to freshman Dink Stover his first night on campus in 1900 in Owen Johnsons 1911-12 serial novel Stover at Yale. For the Stovers of the time, the society system was the reason to attend Yale the reason, even, to exist in a crowd youll want to know all through life. The lists of those tapped, selected by the graduating class, were published in The New York Times every year until the 1970s. In the former, students give reports of stained flags above a round table in the inner sanctum. And apart from the naked parties hosted by the Pundits, a prankster senior society, only Manuscript and St. Elmos throw parties in their tombs on Halloween and then sporadically throughout the year. Symbolically, each smooth white marble ashlar symbolizes the triumphant initiate who has succeeded in his / her efforts of achieving the Great Workmuch like a triumphant Freemason is recognized as one who has perfected his character from a rough ashlar to a smooth ashlar, as shown below: But the smooth white marble ashlars do more than symbolically convey this spiritual transformation; they magically charge the Book & Snake tomb, consecrating it with the same current of metaphysical energy that arises within it from initiates practicing the Great Work. Or maybe, just maybe, the old boys clubs have failed to adapt to the modern world. By that point, theyre just fat seniors and not part of the scene anymore theyre just off it, on the range: its basically like a retirement home.. These interviews are either scheduled, or perhaps inflicted upon an unsuspecting junior without him or her even knowing it. For centuries, operative Freemasons encoded the caduceus into the art, architecture, and symbolism of the churches, castles, and cathedrals they designed and built. The four columns on the Book & Snake faade support a massive triangle-shaped pediment. In one of its meanings, the triangle symbolizes the Path home to the soul. Members of the societies have written dry, official histories such as, The Founding of Wolfs Head, by John Williams Andrews 19 and The First Hundred Years of Scroll and Key, by Maynard Mack 32. This is no old-boy network, this is no Ill pat your back and youll pat mine, said former Coventry City (UK) soccer goalie turned conspiracy researcher David Icke on the History Channel in 2006. 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