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Secret society at Yale University, US
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Skull and Bones
Founded
December 1832
; 193 years ago
December 1832
Yale University
Type
Senior society
Affiliation
Independent
Status
Active
Scope
Local
Chapters
Members
2,800+ lifetime
Nickname
Bones, The Order, Order 322, The Brotherhood of Death
Headquarters
64 High Street
New Haven
Connecticut
06511
United States
Skull and Bones
(also known as
The Order
Order 322
or
The Brotherhood of Death
) is an American undergraduate senior
secret student society
at
Yale University
in
New Haven, Connecticut
. Skull and Bones is considered one of the "Big Three" and "Ancient Eight" at Yale University. The oldest senior-class society at the university, Skull and Bones has become a cultural institution known for its powerful alumni and conspiracy theories.
History
edit
19th century
edit
Skull and Bones was founded in December 1832 after a dispute among Yale debating societies
Linonia
Brothers in Unity
, and the
Calliopean Society
over that season's
Phi Beta Kappa
awards.
William Huntington Russell
and
Alphonso Taft
co-founded "The Order of the Skull and Bones".
The first senior members included Russell, Taft, and thirteen other members.
The first extended description of Skull and Bones, published in 1871 by Lyman Bagg in his book
Four Years at Yale
, noted that "the mystery now attending its existence forms the one great enigma which college gossip never tires of discussing."
In a 1974 book, Brooks Mather Kelley attributed the interest in Yale senior societies to the fact that underclassmen members of then
freshman
sophomore
, and
junior
class societies returned to campus the following years and could share information about society rituals, while graduating seniors were, with their knowledge of such, at least a step removed from campus life.
Since its founding, Skull and Bones annually selects fifteen junior class members to join the society.
Skull and Bones selects new members among students every spring as part of Yale University's "Tap Day", and has done so since 1879. It taps those it views as campus leaders and other notable figures for its membership.
20th century
edit
In the 1960s, secret societies adapted in response to criticism for elitism and discrimination. 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 women for membership was opposed by Bones alumni, who dubbed them the "bad club" and quashed their attempt. "The issue", as it came to be called by Bonesmen, was debated for decades.
The class of 1991 tapped seven female members for membership in the next year's class, causing conflict with the alumni association.
10
The trust changed the locks on the Tomb and the Bonesmen instead met in the
Manuscript Society
building.
10
A mail-in vote by members decided 368–320 to permit women in the society, but a group of alumni led by
William F. Buckley
obtained a
temporary restraining order
to block the move, arguing that a formal change in bylaws was needed.
10
11
Other alumni, such as
John Kerry
and
R. Inslee Clark, Jr.
, spoke out in favor of admitting women. The dispute was highlighted on an editorial page of
The New York Times
10
12
A second alumni vote, in October 1991, agreed to accept the Class of 1992, and the lawsuit was dropped.
10
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21st century
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In recent years, Skull and Bones, like other elite Yale institutions, "utterly transformed", according to
The Atlantic
. The society tapped its first entirely non-white class in 2020. Few descendants of alumni get in, and progressive activism is an asset. The class of 2021 admitted no conservatives.
Skull and Bones is of the "Big Three," which includes
Scroll and Key
and
Wolf's Head
, and the "Ancient Eight" which includes
Book and Snake
Elihu
Berzelius
Mace and Chain
, and
St. Elmo’s
15
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Symbols and traditions
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The society's badge is gold and consists of a skull that is supported by crossed bones, with the number 322 on the lower jaw.
Its members worshipped Eulogia, a fictional goddess of
eloquence
17
Nicknames for Skull and Bones are The Order, Order 322, and The Brotherhood of Death.
18
The society is known informally as "Bones" and members are known as "Bonesmen", "Members of The Order" or "Initiated to The Order".
19
The number "322" appears in Skull and Bones' insignia and is widely reported to be significant as the year of Greek orator
Demosthenes
' death.
13
20
A letter between early society members in Yale's archives suggests that 322 is a reference to the year 322 BC and that members measure dates from this year instead of using
anno Domini
21
In 322 BC, the
Lamian War
ended with the death of Demosthenes, and Athenians were made to dissolve their government and establish a
plutocratic
system in its stead, whereby only those possessing 2,000 drachmas or more could remain citizens. Documents in the Tomb have purportedly been found dated to
Anno-Demostheni
22
One legend is that the number represents "founded in '32, 2nd corps", referring to a first
Corps
in an unknown German university.
23
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Another possible reference of 322 is the
Freemasonic Lodge
of Virtue and Silence no. 322, in
Suffolk, England
, signaling a fraternal but unspoken sponsorship between the two "secret society" organizations, regarding which silence is considered virtuous. Lodge 322 was founded in 1811,
25
21 years before the creation of the Skull and Bones association in 1832.
Crooking
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See also:
Geronimo § Alleged theft of Geronimo's skull
Skull and Bones has a reputation for stealing keepsakes from other Yale societies or campus buildings; society members reportedly call the practice "crooking" and strive to outdo each other's "crooks".
26
27
The society has been accused of possessing the stolen skulls of
Martin Van Buren
Geronimo
, and
Pancho Villa
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29
14
27
In January 2010,
Christie's
canceled a planned auction for a human skull with links to Skull and Bones.
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31
The tomb before the addition of a second wing
A 2009 view of the tomb from across High Street
Facilities
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Tomb
edit
The Skull and Bones Hall, located at 64 High St. in
New Haven, Connecticut
, is otherwise known as the "Tomb". The building was built in three phases: the first wing was built in 1856, the second
wing
in 1903, and Davis-designed
Neo-Gothic
towers were added to the rear garden in 1912. The front and side facades are of
Portland brownstone
in an
Egypto-Doric style
. The architect was possibly
Alexander Jackson Davis
or
Henry Austin
. Architectural historian Patrick Pinnell includes an in-depth discussion of the dispute over the identity of the original architect in his 1999 Yale campus history. Pinnell speculates that the re-use of the Davis towers in 1911 suggests Davis's role in the original building and, conversely, Austin was responsible for the architecturally similar
brownstone
Egyptian Revival
Grove Street Cemetery
gates, built in 1845. Pinnell also discusses the Tomb's esthetic place about its neighbors, including the
Yale University Art Gallery
32
The 1912 tower additions created a small enclosed courtyard in the rear of the building, designed by member Evarts Tracy and Edgerton Swartwout of
Tracy and Swartwout
, New York.
32
In the late 1990s, New Hampshire landscape architects Saucier and Flynn designed the
wrought iron
fence that surrounds a portion of the complex.
33
Deer Island
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Main article:
Deer Island (Thousand Islands)
Skull and Bones members spend a week in the late summer getting to know each other at Deer Island.
The society owns and manages
Deer Island
, an island retreat on the
St. Lawrence River
44°21′33″N
75°54′34″W
 / 
44.359063°N 75.909345°W
 /
44.359063; -75.909345
 (
Location of New Skull & Bones Society Lodge on Deer Island
).
Alexandra Robbins
, author of a book on Yale secret societies, wrote:
The forty-acre retreat is intended to allow Bonesmen to "get together and rekindle old friendships." A century ago the island sported tennis courts and its softball fields were surrounded by rhubarb plants and gooseberry bushes.
Catboats
waited on the lake. Stewards catered elegant meals.
— "George W., Knight of Eulogia"
34
William Huntington Russell
, namesake of the Russell Trust Association
Russell Trust Association
edit
The Russell Trust Association is the
business name
of Skull and Bones
Society
35
36
It was incorporated in 1856 by William Huntington Russell as president and
Daniel Coit Gilman
as treasurer.
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The association holds the society's assets, including its endowment and property, and oversees property upkeep.
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38
According to its 2016 filing with the
IRS
, the Russell Trust Association, filing as RTA Incorporated, has assets of $3,906,458, including Deer Island and the Skull and Bones Hall.
39
As of 2024, the organization had an endowment of $17 million.
Notable members
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Main article:
List of Skull and Bones members
Yearbook listing of Skull and Bones members for 1920, including
Briton Hadden
and
Henry Luce
, who co-founded
Time
magazine in 1923
Skull and Bones' membership developed a reputation in association with the "
power elite
".
40
Regarding the qualifications for membership,
Lanny Davis
wrote in the 1968 Yale yearbook:
20
If the society had a good year, this is what the "ideal" group will consist of: a football captain; a Chairman of the
Yale Daily News
; a conspicuous
radical
; a
Whiffenpoof
; a swimming captain; a notorious drunk with a 94 average; a film-maker; a political columnist; a religious group leader; a Chairman of the Lit; a foreigner; a ladies' man with two motorcycles; an ex-serviceman; a negro, if there are enough to go around; a guy nobody else in the group had heard of, ever
...
Like other Yale senior societies, Skull and Bones's membership was almost exclusively limited to
white Protestant
men for much of its history.
41
While Yale had exclusionary policies directed at particular ethnic and religious groups, the senior societies were even more exclusionary.
42
43
While some
Roman Catholics
were able to join such groups,
Jews
were more often not.
43
Some of these excluded groups eventually entered Skull and Bones using sports, through the society's practice of tapping standout athletes. Star football players tapped for Skull and Bones included the first Jewish player (
Al Hessberg
, class of 1938) and
African-American
player (
Levi Jackson
, class of 1950), although Jackson declined the tap, instead electing to join
Berzelius
42
Judith Ann Schiff, chief research archivist at the
Yale University Library
, has written: "The names of its members weren't kept secret‍—‌--that was an innovation of the 1970s--but its meetings and practices were."
While resourceful researchers could assemble member data from these sources, in 1985,
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
provided author
Antony C. Sutton
with rosters and records that had belonged to her father, a member of the organization.
44
Sutton held this membership information privately for over fifteen
years, as he feared that the photocopied pages could somehow identify the member who leaked it.
44
The information was reformatted as an appendix in the book
Fleshing out Skull and Bones
, a compilation published in 2003.
45
Prominent alumni include three former
U.S. presidents
William Howard Taft
(a founder's son),
George H. W. Bush
, and
George W. Bush
30
In the
2004 presidential election
, both the Democratic and Republican nominees were members of Skull and Bones. When asked what it meant that both he and George W. Bush were Bonesmen, former presidential candidate
John Kerry
said, "Not much, because it's a secret."
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Members are assigned nicknames. Examples include "Long Devil", the tallest member, "Boaz", a varsity football captain, and "Sherrife", the prince of the future. Many of the chosen names are drawn from literature (e.g., "
Hamlet
", "
Uncle Remus
") religion, and myth. The banker
Lewis Lapham
passed on his nickname, "
Sancho Panza
", to the political adviser
Tex McCrary
Averell Harriman
was "
Thor
",
Henry Luce
was "
Baal
",
McGeorge Bundy
was "
Odin
", and
George H. W. Bush
was "
Magog
".
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Popular culture
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Literature and print
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Tom Wolfe
mentions Skull and Bones in his 1976 book,
The Me Decade
, writing, "At Yale, the students on the outside wondered for 80 years what went on inside the fabled secret senior societies, such as Skull and Bones. On Thursday nights one would see the secret society members walking silently and single file, in black flannel suits, white shirts, and black knit ties with gold pins on them, toward their great Greek Revival temples on the campus, buildings whose mystery was doubled by the fact that they had no windows."
48
Skull and Bones have been satirized from time to time in the
Doonesbury
comic strips by
Garry Trudeau
, Yale graduate and
Scroll and Key
member. There are overt references, especially in 1980 and December 1988, concerning
George H. W. Bush
, and again when the society first admitted women.
49
George W. Bush
wrote in his
autobiography
, "[In my] senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society; so secret, I can't say anything more."
50
Leigh Bardugo
explores the secret societies of Yale, including Skull and Bones, in her dark fantasy horror novel
Ninth House
Film
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The Skulls
(2000) and
The Skulls II
(2002) films are based on the conspiracy theories surrounding Skull and Bones.
51
A third film,
The Skulls III
(2004), is based on the first woman to be "tapped" to join the society.
In
The Good Shepherd
(2006) the protagonist becomes a member of Skull and Bones while studying at Yale.
52
In
Baz Luhrmann
's 2013
film version
of
F. Scott Fitzgerald
's novel
The Great Gatsby
, Nick Carraway calls Tom Buchanan "Boaz
. Tom in turn calls Nick "Shakespeare
. Nick said earlier that he met Tom at Yale. It is thereby implied that they were in Skull and Bones together.
27
In the novel, Yale is not explicitly mentioned, rather, they were at college in New Haven together, and it is only stated that they were in the same senior society.
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Television
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In Season 1, Episode 33 of the 1966
Batman
TV series
, "Fine Finny Fiends" there is a gathering at
Wayne Manor
during which one guest points out a portrait of
Bruce Wayne
's great-grandfather wearing a Yale sweater. He asks if it is true that Bruce's ancestor was tapped for Skull and Bones, to which
Aunt Harriet
replies that he was not tapped for it, but "he
founded
Skull and Bones!"
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27
In
The Simpsons
season 8
episode "
The Canine Mutiny
" (1997), after doing a
secret handshake
with a dog, Mr. Burns says: "I believe this dog was in Skull and Bones".
41
In
Family Guy
episode, "
No Chris Left Behind
", (2007) when
Chris Griffin
is being bullied by the richer students at Morningwood Academy,
Lois Griffin
asks her father, Carter Pewterschmidt, to help Chris. So Carter invites Chris to join Skull and Bones with the other students, who begin to accept him. As part of his initiation, Carter and Chris adopt an orphan and lock him out of the car, which is filled with toys and a puppy, and then drive away when he is unable to get in. At the initiation ceremony, Carter tells Chris that he must spend "
Seven minutes in heaven
" with their most senior member,
Herbert
. Chris feels uncomfortable about joining and convinces Carter to help him get back into his old school.
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On
Meet The Press
Tim Russert
asked both President George W. Bush and John Kerry about their memberships to Skull and Bones, to which the president replied, "It's so secret we can't talk about it." Kerry replied, "You trying to get rid of me here?"
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In
The Simpsons
season 28
episode "
The Caper Chase
" (2017), Mr. Burns visits the Skull and Bones society to meet with Bourbon Verlander about
for-profit universities
41
In
Gossip Girl
season 2
episode "New Heaven Can Wait" (2008), Chuck Bass is kidnapped by Skull and Bones members while visiting Yale. They make him pass a series of tests to assess his loyalty as they think Chuck is the ideal Skull and Bones candidate. Chuck eventually declines the offer and tricks them into performing illegal acts while filming them to have blackmail leverage in case he ever needs something from them in the future.
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The 1970 television movie
The Brotherhood of the Bell
, starring
Glenn Ford
, is a paranoid conspiracy thriller centered around the title organization that strongly resembles Skull and Bones.
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Conspiracy theories
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Skull and Bones is featured in books and movies which claim the society plays a role in a
global conspiracy for world control
17
There have been rumors that Skull and Bones is a branch of the
Illuminati
or that Skull and Bones controls the
CIA
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See also
edit
Collegiate secret societies in North America
List of senior societies
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Further reading
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Hodapp, Christopher
, and Alice Von Kannon (2008).
Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies
. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
ISBN
978-0470184080
Jarrett, William H. (2011).
"Yale, Skull and Bones, and the Beginnings of Johns Hopkins"
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
24
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Baylor University Medical Center
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34.
doi
10.1080/08998280.2011.11928679
PMC
3012287
PMID
21307974
Klimczuk, Stephen, and
Gerald Warner
(2009).
Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries: Uncovering Mysterious Sites, Symbols, and Societies
. New York and London: Sterling Publishing.
ISBN
978-1402762079
. pp. 212–232 ("University Secret Societies and Dueling Corps").
Robbins, Alexandra (2003).
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0316735612
Rosenbaum, Ron (September 1977).
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Esquire
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(2003).
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
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ISBN
0972020705
Sutton, Antony C.
, et al. (2003).
Fleshing Out Skull & Bones Investigations Into America's Most Powerful Secret Society
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