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The '''Scroll and Key Society''' is a [[Collegiate secret societies in North America|secret society]], founded in 1842 at [[Yale University]], in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. It is one of the oldest [[Collegiate secret societies in North America#Yale University|Yale secret societies]] and reputedly the |
The '''Scroll and Key Society''' is a [[Collegiate secret societies in North America|secret society]], founded in 1842 at [[Yale University]], in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. It is one of the oldest [[Collegiate secret societies in North America#Yale University|Yale secret societies]] and reputedly the wealthiest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/yales-wealthiest-secret-societies-2016-11|title=7 of Yale's super-elite secret societies ranked by wealth|last=Jackson|first=Abby|website=Business Insider|access-date=2019-02-24}}</ref> The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with [[Skull and Bones]] and [[Wolf's Head (secret society)|Wolf's Head]].<ref>{{Cite Power Broker}}</ref> Each spring the society admits fifteen rising [[Senior (education)#Higher education|seniors]] to participate in its activities and carry on its traditions. |
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==History== |
==History== |
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Scroll and Key was established by [[John Addison Porter]], with aid from several members of the Class of 1842 (including [[Leonard Case Jr.]] and [[Theodore Runyon]]) and a member of the Class of 1843 (William L. Kingsley), after disputes over elections to [[Skull and Bones Society]]. Kingsley is the namesake of the alumni organization, the Kingsley Trust Association (KTA), incorporated years after its founding. |
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[[File:Yale Scroll and Key Facade with gate and forecourt.JPG|thumb|Facade displaying Moorish gate and patterned forecourt.]] |
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[[File:Scroll and Key 1866 delegation Yale College.jpg|thumb|left|Members of the 1866 delegation]] |
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Scroll and Key was established by [[John Addison Porter]], with aid from several members of the Class of 1842, including [[Leonard Case Jr.]] and [[Theodore Runyon]], and a member of the Class of 1843, William L. Kingsley, after disputes over elections to [[Skull and Bones Society]]. Kingsley is the namesake of the alumni organization, the Kingsley Trust Association (KTA), incorporated years after the founding. |
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Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."<ref>''Four years at Yale''. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & Co, 1871. p. 158.</ref> |
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In addition to financing its activities, Scroll and Key has made significant donations to Yale over the years. The [[John Addison Porter#John Addison Porter Prize|John Addison Porter Prize]], awarded annually since 1872, and in 1917 the endowment for the founding of the [[Yale University Press]], which has funded the publication of The Yale [[Shakespeare]] and sponsored the [[Yale Younger Poets Series]], are gifts from "Keys". |
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Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."<ref>''Four years at Yale''. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & co, 1871. p. 158.</ref> |
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==Gifts to Yale== |
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In addition to financing its own activities, "Keys" has made significant donations to Yale over the years. The [[John Addison Porter#John Addison Porter Prize|John Addison Porter Prize]], awarded annually since 1872, and in 1917 the endowment for the founding of the [[Yale University Press]], which has funded the publication of The Yale [[Shakespeare]] and sponsored the [[Yale Younger Poets Series]], are gifts from Keys. |
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==Traditions== |
==Traditions== |
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[[File:Scroll and Key Pin.jpg|thumb |
[[File:Scroll and Key Pin.jpg|thumb|Society pin]] |
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* At the close of Thursday and Sunday sessions, members are known to sing the "[[Troubadour]]" song on the front steps of the Society's hall, a remnant of the tradition of public singing at Yale.<ref>''Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti''. [[James Reston]], U of Nebraska Press, 1997. p. 41. {{ISBN|0-8032-8964-2}}</ref><ref>''Four years at Yale''. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & |
* At the close of Thursday and Sunday sessions, members are known to sing the "[[Troubadour]]" song on the front steps of the Society's hall, a remnant of the tradition of public singing at Yale.<ref>''Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti''. [[James Reston]], U of Nebraska Press, 1997. p. 41. {{ISBN|0-8032-8964-2}}</ref><ref>''Four years at Yale''. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & Co, 1871. p. 163.</ref> The song (written in the 1820s by [[Thomas Haynes Bayly]]) was recorded by [[Tennessee Ernie Ford]] on his 1956 album, ''This Lusty Land'', as "Gaily the Troubador". |
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* In keeping with the practice of adopting secret letters or symbols such as [[Skull and Bones]]' "322," [[Manuscript Society|Manuscript]]'s "344," and the Pundits' "T.B.I.Y.T.B," Scroll and Key is known to use the letters "C.S.P. and C.C.J." |
* In keeping with the practice of adopting secret letters or symbols such as [[Skull and Bones]]' "322," [[Manuscript Society|Manuscript]]'s "344," and [[The_Pundits|the Pundits]]' "T.B.I.Y.T.B," Scroll and Key is known to use the letters "C.S.P. and C.C.J."<ref name="Yale. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg 1871. p. 157">''Four years at Yale''. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & Co, 1871. p. 157.</ref> |
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* Members of the society sign letters to each other "YiT", as opposed to Skull and Bones' "yours in 322".<ref name="Yale. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg 1871. p. 157" /> |
* Members of the society sign letters to each other "YiT", as opposed to Skull and Bones' "yours in 322".<ref name="Yale. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg 1871. p. 157" /> |
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* Outside of its [[Collegiate secret societies in |
* Outside of its [[Collegiate secret societies in North America#Tapping|tap]]-related activities, the society has been known to hold two major annual events called "Z Session".<ref name="Yale. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg 1871. p. 157" /> |
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== Architecture == |
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[[File:Secret Society Buildings New Haven.jpg|thumb|Building, pre-expansion building (bottom) ]] [[File:Old Scroll and Key.jpg|thumb|right|Building during its expansion, 1901]] |
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The society's "building" was designed in the [[Moorish Revival]] style by [[Richard Morris Hunt]] and constructed in 1870.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://conserve-art.com/scroll-and-key-tomb/|title = Scroll and Key Tomb|date = June 8, 2013}}</ref> A later expansion was completed in 1901. Architectural historian Patrick Pinnell includes an in-depth discussion of Keys' building in his 1999 history of Yale's campus, relating the then-notable cost overruns associated with the Keys structure and its aesthetic significance within the campus landscape. Pinnell's history shares the fact that the land was purchased from another Yale secret society, [[Berzelius (secret society)|Berzelius]] (at that time, a [[Sheffield Scientific School]] society). In 2002, the society underwent a major construction project rumored to involve an aquarium beneath the society.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} |
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Scroll and Key taps annually a delegation of fifteen, composed of men and women of the junior class, to serve the following year. Membership is offered to a diverse group of highly accomplished juniors, specifically those who have "achieved in any field, academic, extra-curricular, or personal."<ref>[http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/document.php?CISOROOT=/yale-ydn&CISOPTR=16213&REC=7 Yale University Library Digital Collections : Compound Object Viewer<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430150719/http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fyale-ydn&CISOPTR=16213&REC=7 |date=2011-04-30 }}</ref> Delegations frequently include editors of the ''[[Yale Daily News]]'' and other publications, artists and musicians, social and political activists, athletes of distinction, entrepreneurs, and high achieving scholars.<ref>http://www.ivygateblog.com/?s=scroll+and+key, see membership lists</ref><ref>A cross-reference with recent members (available on IvyGateBlog.com and in print issues of the Yale Rumpus) and scholarship winners will indicate the high number of Scroll and Key members</ref> |
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Regarding its distinctive appearance, Pinnell noted that "19th-century artists' studios commonly had exotic orientalia lying about to suggest that the painter was sophisticated, well traveled, and in touch with mysterious powers; Hunt's Scroll and Key is one instance in which the trope got turned into a building."<ref name="Pinnell1">{{cite book|last=Pinnell|first=Patrick|title=The Campus Guide: Yale University|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|year=1999|pages=125|isbn=978-1-56898-167-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alnup81pmkAC&q=patrick+pinnell+yale+anthony&pg=PA123|access-date=2008-11-10}}</ref> Later, undergraduates described the building as a "striped zebra Billiard Hall" in a supplement to a Yale yearbook.<ref>Andrews, John.''History of the Founding of [[Wolf's Head (secret society)|Wolf's Head]]'',pg. 56, Lancaster Press, 1934</ref> More recently, it has been described by an undergraduate publication as being "the nicest building in all of New Haven.".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yaleherald.com/bullblog/francos-little-place-in-new-haven-where-will-it-be-fun-study-break-poll//|title=Franco's "little place in New Haven": where will it be? [POLL]|publisher=yaleherald.com|date=May 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032808/http://yaleherald.com/bullblog/francos-little-place-in-new-haven-where-will-it-be-fun-study-break-poll//|access-date=2011-02-13|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> |
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[[Mark Twain]] is an honorary member, under the auspices of [[Joseph Twichell]], Yale College Class of 1859.<ref>Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2, 1867–1868, [[University of California Press]], editors Harriet E. Smith, Richatd Bucci and Lin Salamo, pg. 281</ref> |
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== Membership == |
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Scroll and Key taps annually a delegation of fifteen, composed of men and women of the junior class, to serve the following year. Membership is offered to a diverse group of highly accomplished juniors, specifically those who have "achieved in any field, academic, extra-curricular, or personal."<ref>[http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/document.php?CISOROOT=/yale-ydn&CISOPTR=16213&REC=7 Yale University Library Digital Collections: Compound Object Viewer<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430150719/http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fyale-ydn&CISOPTR=16213&REC=7|date=2011-04-30}}</ref> Delegations frequently include editors of the ''[[Yale Daily News]]'' and other publications, artists and musicians, social and political activists, athletes of distinction, entrepreneurs, and high achieving scholars.<ref>http://www.ivygateblog.com/?s=scroll+and+key, see membership lists</ref><ref>A cross-reference with recent members (available on IvyGateBlog.com and in print issues of the Yale Rumpus) and scholarship winners will indicate the high number of Scroll and Key members</ref> |
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[[File:Secret Society Buildings New Haven.jpg|thumb|left|Secret Society Buildings New Haven, the original building is pictured at the bottom and has since been expanded.]] [[File:Old Scroll and Key.jpg|thumb|right|The building in 1901 during its expansion]] |
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The society's "building" was designed in the [[Moorish Revival]] style by [[Richard Morris Hunt]] and constructed in 1870<ref>http://conserve-art.com/scroll-and-key-tomb/</ref>. A later expansion was completed in 1901. Architectural historian Patrick Pinnell includes an in-depth discussion of Keys' building in his 1999 history of Yale's campus, relating the then-notable cost overruns associated with the Keys structure and its aesthetic significance within the campus landscape. Pinnell's history shares the fact that the land was purchased from another Yale secret society, [[Berzelius (secret society)|Berzelius]] (at that time, a [[Sheffield Scientific School]] society). In 2002, the society underwent a major construction project rumored to involve an aquarium beneath the society. |
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[[Mark Twain]] is an honorary member, under the auspices of [[Joseph Twichell]], Yale College Class of 1859.<ref>Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2, 1867–1868, [[University of California Press]], editors Harriet E. Smith, Richard Bucci and Lin Salamo, pg. 281</ref> |
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Regarding its distinctive appearance, Pinnell noted that "19th century artists' studios commonly had exotic orientalia lying about to suggest that the painter was sophisticated, well traveled, and in touch with mysterious powers; Hunt's Scroll and Key is one instance in which the trope got turned into a building."<ref name="Pinnell1">{{cite book|last=Pinnell|first=Patrick|title=The Campus Guide: Yale University|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|year=1999|pages=125|isbn=978-1-56898-167-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alnup81pmkAC&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=patrick+pinnell+yale+anthony|accessdate=2008-11-10}}</ref> Later, undergraduates described the building as a "striped zebra Billiard Hall" in a supplement to a Yale Yearbook.<ref>Andrews, John.''History of the Founding of [[Wolf's Head (secret society)|Wolf's Head]]'',pg. 56, Lancaster Press, 1934</ref> More recently, it has been described by an undergraduate publication as being "the nicest building in all of New Haven.".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032808/http://yaleherald.com/bullblog/francos-little-place-in-new-haven-where-will-it-be-fun-study-break-poll//|title=Franco's "little place in New Haven": where will it be? [POLL]|publisher=yaleherald.com|date=May 6, 2010|accessdate=2011-02-13}}</ref> |
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==Notable members== |
== Notable members == |
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[[File:Fareed Zakaria on January 28, 2011.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Fareed Zakaria]]]] |
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[[File:Sargent Shriver 1961.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Sargent Shriver]]]] |
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[[File:Coleporter.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Cole Porter]] ]] |
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[[File:CalvinTrillin.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Calvin Trillin]]]] |
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[[File:HarveyCushing.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Harvey Cushing]]]] |
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[[File:GarryTrudeau.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Garry Trudeau]]]] |
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|[[Leonard Case Jr.]] || 1842 || Philanthropist and Founder of [[Case Western Reserve University|Case School of Applied Science]] in [[Cleveland]], later [[Case Western Reserve University]]<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Leonard Case Jr.]] || 1842 || Founder of [[Case Western Reserve University|Case School of Applied Science]], later [[Case Western Reserve University]] |
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|[[Theodore Runyon]] || 1842 || Envoy, then Ambassador, Germany; Battle of Bull Run<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|<ref name="history1942">{{cite book |last=Giamatti |first=A. Bartlett |title=History of Scroll and Key, 1942–1972 |publisher=The Scroll and Key Society |year=1978}}</ref> |
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|[[Theodore Runyon]] || 1842 || Envoy and Ambassador to Germany; Battle of Bull Run |
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|[[Carter Harrison, Sr.|Carter Henry Harrison]] || 1845 || Mayor of Chicago, five terms 1879–93; US Representative, 1875–79; cousin of President William Henry Harrison<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Carter Harrison, Sr.|Carter Henry Harrison]] || 1845 || Mayor of Chicago and U.S. Representative |
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|[[Randall L. Gibson]] || 1853 || US Senator 1883–1892 (Louisiana); US Representative, 1872–1882; Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army; President, Tulane University<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Homer Sprague]] |
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|[[George Shiras Jr.]] || 1853 || U.S. Supreme Court Justice<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Randall L. Gibson]] || 1853 || U.S. Senator, Confederate Brigadier-General, and president of [[Tulane University]] |
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|[[John Dalzell]] || 1865 || US Congress<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[George Shiras Jr.]] || 1853 || [[U.S. Supreme Court Justice]] |
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|[[George Bird Grinnell]] || 1870 || Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=UxF1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT64&lpg=PT64&dq=grinnell+scroll+and+key#v=onepage&q=grinnell%20scroll%20and%20key&f=false |title = Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West|isbn = 978-1-63149-014-9|last1 = Taliaferro|first1 = John|date = 2019-06-04}}</ref> |
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|[[John Dalzell]] || 1865 || U.S. Congress |
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|[[Edward Salisbury Dana]] || 1871 || American mineralogist<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[George Bird Grinnell]] || 1870 || Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer |
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|[[Fred Dubois]] || 1872 || First US Senator from Idaho 1891–1897, resigned, re-elected 1901–1907; Opponent of gold standard; Engineered statehood for Idaho<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Edward Salisbury Dana]] || 1871 || American mineralogist |
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|[[Henry deForest]] || 1876 || Southern Pacific Railroad<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Fred Dubois]] || 1872 || U.S. Senator |
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|[[Gilbert Colgate]] || 1883 || President and Chairman of Colgate & Co.<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Henry deForest]] || 1876 || [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] |
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|[[George Edgar Vincent]] || 1885 || President of the [[University of Minnesota]]; President of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]<ref name="time1" /> |
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|[[Gilbert Colgate]] || 1883 || President and Chairman of Colgate & Co. |
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|[[James Gamble Rogers]] || 1889 || [[Collegiate Gothic]] [[architecture|architect]], favored architect of [[Edward Harkness]] and designed many of Yale's buildings<ref name="time1" /> |
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|[[George Edgar Vincent]] || 1885 || President of the [[University of Minnesota]]; President of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] |
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|[[Herbert Parsons (New York politician)|Herbert Parsons]] || 1890 || US Congress 1904–1910; leading supporter of League of Nations<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|<ref name="time1">{{cite news |author=HP-Time.com Monday, May. 31, 1926 |date=May 31, 1926 |title=Wedlock — TIME |publisher=Time.com |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=2008-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230102810/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html |archive-date=December 30, 2007}}</ref> |
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|[[James Gamble Rogers]] || 1889 || [[architecture|architect]], designed many of Yale's buildings |
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|[[Harvey Cushing]] || 1891 || Neurosurgeon considered father of brain surgery<ref name="time1" /> |
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|[[Herbert Parsons (New York politician)|Herbert Parsons]] || 1890 || U.S. Congress |
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|[[William Nelson Runyon]] || 1892 || Acting Governor of New Jersey (May 1919 – Jan 1920)<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Harvey Cushing]] || 1891 || Neurosurgeon, considered father of brain surgery |
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|[[Frank Polk]] || 1894 || Davis Polk & Wardwell; (acting) Secretary of State, managed conclusion to World War I<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[William Nelson Runyon]] || 1892 || Acting Governor of New Jersey |
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|[[Allen Wardwell]] || 1895 || Russian War Relief, [[Davis Polk & Wardwell]]; [[Bank of New York]]; Vice-President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Frank Polk]] || 1894 || Secretary of State, [[Davis Polk & Wardwell]], managed the conclusion to [[World War I]] |
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|[[Lewis Sheldon]] || 1895 || US Peace Commission, Paris Peace Conference, 1918; Olympic medalist, track and field<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Allen Wardwell]] || 1895 || [[Davis Polk & Wardwell]]; [[Bank of New York]]; Vice-President of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce |
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|[[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]] || 1895 || Brigadier General in the U.S. Army during the First World War<ref name="time1">{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html |title=Wedlock — TIME |publisher=Time.com |author=HP-Time.com Monday, May. 31, 1926 |date=May 31, 1926 |accessdate=2008-10-17}}</ref> |
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|[[Lewis Sheldon]] || 1895 || [[Paris Peace Conference]], Olympic medalist |
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|[[William Adams Delano]] || 1895 || Award-winning Architect; designed many of Yale's buildings<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]] || 1895 || Brigadier General in the U.S. Army during the World War I |
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|[[Joseph Medill McCormick]] || 1900 || U.S. Senate 1919-1924; publisher, ''Chicago Tribune''<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[William Adams Delano]] || 1895 || architect; designed many of Yale's buildings |
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|[[Joseph Medill Patterson|Joseph M. Patterson]] || 1901 || Founder, ''[[New York Daily News]]''; manager, ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''<ref name="time1" /> |
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|[[Joseph Medill McCormick]] || 1900 || U.S. Senate and publisher of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' |
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|[[Joseph Medill Patterson|Joseph M. Patterson]] || 1901 || Founder of the ''[[New York Daily News]]''; manager of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' |
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|[[Robert R. McCormick]] || 1903 || ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''; [[Kirkland & Ellis]]<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[James C. Auchincloss]] || 1908 || |
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|[[William C. Bullitt]] || 1912 || |
|[[William C. Bullitt]] || 1912 || Ambassador to France, Ambassador to the Soviet Russia |
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|[[Mortimer R. Proctor]] || 1912 || Governor of Vermont |
|[[Mortimer R. Proctor]] || 1912 || Governor of Vermont |
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|[[Cole Porter]] || 1913 || Entertainer, songwriter<ref name="robbins1">{{cite book|last=Robbins|first=Alexandra|title=Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power|publisher=Back Bay Books|year=2002|isbn=978-0-316-73561-2|url-access=registration |
|[[Cole Porter]] || 1913 || Entertainer, songwriter |
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|[[Dean Acheson]] || 1915 || 51st Secretary of State<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Wayne Chatfield-Taylor]] || 1916 || President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
|[[Wayne Chatfield-Taylor]] || 1916 || President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
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|[[Dickinson W. Richards]] || 1917 || |
|[[Dickinson W. Richards]] || 1917 || [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] |
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|[[Ethan A. H. Shepley]] || 1918 || Chancellor |
|[[Ethan A. H. Shepley]] || 1918 || Chancellor of [[Washington University in St. Louis]] |
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|[[John Enders]] || 1919 || |
|[[John Enders]] || 1919 || [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] |
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|[[Brewster Jennings]] || 1920 || Founder and |
|[[Brewster Jennings]] || 1920 || Founder and president of the [[Mobil|Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York]] |
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|[[Seymour H. Knox I|Seymour H. Knox]] || 1920 || American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company<ref name="history1942" /> |
|[[Seymour H. Knox I|Seymour H. Knox]] || 1920 || American retailer, [[F. W. Woolworth Company]] |
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|[[Richardson Dilworth]] || 1921 || Mayor of [[Philadelphia]] |
|[[Richardson Dilworth]] || 1921 || Mayor of [[Philadelphia]] |
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|[[William Hawks]] || 1923 || Film producer<ref>{{cite news|title=Yale 'Tap Day' Brings Honors to Rowing Men|newspaper=New York Tribune|location=New York, N.Y. |
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|[[James Stillman Rockefeller]] || 1924 || President and |
|[[James Stillman Rockefeller]] || 1924 || President and chairman, The First National [[City Bank of New York]]; Olympic gold medal |
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|[[Huntington D. Sheldon]] || 1925 || Central Intelligence Agency; |
|[[Huntington D. Sheldon]] || 1925 || Central Intelligence Agency; President of the Petroleum Corporation of America |
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|[[Newbold Morris]] || 1925 || New York lawyer and politician<ref name="history1942" /> |
|[[Newbold Morris]] || 1925 || New York lawyer and politician |
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|[[Benjamin Spock]] || 1925 || Pediatrician |
|[[Benjamin Spock]] || 1925 || Pediatrician, author, and Olympic gold medalist |
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|[[John Hay Whitney]] || 1926 || [[U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom]], publisher of [[New York Herald Tribune]] |
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|[[John Hay Whitney]] || 1926 || [[U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom]], publisher of the [[New York Herald Tribune]], major philanthropist to [[Yale University]], and during his college years coined the phrase "[[crew cut]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_04/old_yale.html|title=Yale Alumni Magazine: John Hay Whitney|date=May 2002|publisher=Yale Alumni Publications inc.|accessdate=2011-02-13|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230124108/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_04/old_yale.html|archivedate=2010-12-30}}</ref> |
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|[[Frederic A. Potts]] || 1926 || Chairman, Philadelphia National Bank; New Jersey Senate |
|[[Frederic A. Potts]] || 1926 || Chairman, [[Philadelphia National Bank]]; New Jersey Senate |
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|[[Paul Mellon]] || 1929 || Philanthropist<ref name="nytimes1" /> |
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|[[Benjamin Brewster (financier)|Benjamin Brewster]] || 1929 || Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon)<ref name="history1942" /> |
|[[Benjamin Brewster (financier)|Benjamin Brewster]] || 1929 || Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon) |
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|[[Raymond R. Guest]] || 1931 || |
|[[Raymond R. Guest]] || 1931 || U.S. Ambassador to Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense |
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|[[Donald R. McLennan]] || 1931 || Founder and |
|[[Donald R. McLennan]] || 1931 || Founder and chairman, insurance brokerage firm [[Marsh McLennan]] |
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|[[Robert F. Wagner, Jr.]] || 1933 || |
|[[Robert F. Wagner, Jr.]] || 1933 || [[Mayor of New York City]] |
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|[[J. Peter Grace]] || 1936 || [[W. R. Grace]] & Co. |
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|[[J. Peter Grace]] || 1936 || [[W. R. Grace]] & Co.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html |title=J. Peter Grace — Business Executive, leading Catholic layman, Advisor to three U.S. Presidents — dies at age 81. | Government > Government Bodies & Offices from AllBusiness.com |publisher=Allbusiness.com |date= |accessdate=2008-10-17|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108111053/http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html |archivedate=8 January 2009 }}</ref> |
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|[[Peter H. Dominick]] || 1937 || |
|[[Peter H. Dominick]] || 1937 || U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland |
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|[[Sargent Shriver]] || 1938 || Peace Corps; |
|[[Sargent Shriver]] || 1938 || [[Peace Corps]]; Vice-Presidential Candidate, [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] |
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|[[Cyrus Vance]] || 1939 || |
|[[Cyrus Vance]] || 1939 || Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]] |
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|[[Robert D. Orr]] || 1940 || Governor of Indiana; |
|[[Robert D. Orr]] || 1940 || [[Governor of Indiana]]; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore |
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|[[Cord Meyer, Jr.]] || 1943 || Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists |
|[[Cord Meyer, Jr.]] || 1943 || [[Central Intelligence Agency]]; [[United World Federalists]] |
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|[[George Roy Hill]] || 1943 || |
|[[George Roy Hill]] || 1943 || [[Academy Award for Directing]] ''[[The Sting]]'' |
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|[[Frederick B. Dent]] || 1944 || |
|[[Frederick B. Dent]] || 1944 || [[U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] |
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|[[John Vliet Lindsay]] || 1944 || [[Mayor of New York City]], Congressman from New York City |
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|[[John Vliet Lindsay]] || 1944 || 103rd Mayor of New York City 1966–1973<br />Congressman from New York City 1959–1965<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A17F8355F167B93C3A8178BD95F4C8485F9|title=Mary A. Harrison, Lawyers Fiance. Vassar Graduate Will Be Bride of John V. Lindsay, Former Lieutenant in the Navy|date=October 11, 1948 |newspaper=New York Times|pages=29|accessdate=December 12, 2011}}</ref> |
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|[[Thomas Enders]] || 1953 || Ambassador |
|[[Thomas Enders]] || 1953 || Ambassador to Spain, Ambassador to European Union, Ambassador to Canada |
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|[[Philip B. Heymann]] || 1954 || Watergate Special Prosecutor, Deputy |
|[[Philip B. Heymann]] || 1954 || [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] Special Prosecutor, Deputy U.S. Attorney General; professor at Harvard Law School |
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|[[Warren Zimmermann]] || 1956 || |
|[[Warren Zimmermann]] || 1956 || U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, author |
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|[[Roscoe S. Suddarth]] || 1956 || President |
|[[Roscoe S. Suddarth]] || 1956 || President of the [[Middle East Institute]]; U.S. Ambassador to Jordan |
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|[[Calvin Trillin]] || 1957 || writer |
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|[[Calvin Trillin]] || 1957 || American writer<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8zS-KSreMQ0C&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq=%22Calvin+Trillin%22+%22scroll+and+key%22&source=bl&ots=ahMoYBsWHX&sig=xE_PyxU0A2Ol9N_Yi9SlSiogcfM&hl=en&ei=LygDTIKoEM3llwf5q6j1Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Remembering Denny – Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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|[[A. Bartlett Giamatti]] || 1960 || |
|[[A. Bartlett Giamatti]] || 1960 || Yale University president; [[National League (baseball)|National League]] president, [[MLB]] Commissioner |
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|[[Peter Beard]] || 1961 || |
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|[[Garry Trudeau]] || 1970 || [[Doonesbury]] cartoonist |
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|[[Stone Phillips]] || 1977 || [[Dateline NBC]] |
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|[[Rick E. Lawrence]] || 1977 || Associate Justice of the [[Maine Supreme Judicial Court]] |
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|[[Garry Trudeau]] || 1970 || [[Doonesbury]] Cartoonist<ref name="nytimes1" /> |
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|[[Gideon Rose]] || 1985 || Foreign Affairs |
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|[[Fareed Zakaria]] || 1986 || editor of ''[[Newsweek]]'' and host of [[CNN]] show |
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|[[Gideon Rose]] || 1985 || Foreign Affairs<ref name="history1942" /> |
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|[[Dave Baseggio]] || 1989 || Director of Professional Scouting for the [[Seattle Kraken]] |
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|[[Fareed Zakaria]] || 1986 || Editor, Newsweek International and host of CNN show, Former Yale Corporation Member (Resigned 2012) |
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|[[Dahlia Lithwick]] || 1990 || Editor at [[Newsweek]] and [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |
|[[Dahlia Lithwick]] || 1990 || Editor at ''[[Newsweek]]'' and [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'']] |
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|[[Jeannie Rhee]] || 1994 || Special Council member for the Obstruction of Justice Investigation<ref>"Jeannie Rhee". Diversity Journal. Retrieved 2018-01-19, January 30, 2019</ref> |
|[[Jeannie Rhee]] || 1994 || Special Council member for the Obstruction of Justice Investigation |
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|[[Alexandra Robbins]] || 1998 || Journalist |
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|[[Ari Shapiro]] || 2000 || Co-host of All Things Considered for [[National Public Radio]]<ref name=" |
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Scroll and Key | |
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Founded | 1842 Yale University |
Type | Senior Secret society |
Scope | Local |
Chapters | 1 |
Headquarters | 484 College Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 United States |
The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest Yale secret societies and reputedly the wealthiest.[1] The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head.[2] Each spring the society admits fifteen rising seniors to participate in its activities and carry on its traditions.
History[edit]
Scroll and Key was established by John Addison Porter, with aid from several members of the Class of 1842 (including Leonard Case Jr. and Theodore Runyon) and a member of the Class of 1843 (William L. Kingsley), after disputes over elections to Skull and Bones Society. Kingsley is the namesake of the alumni organization, the Kingsley Trust Association (KTA), incorporated years after its founding.
Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."[3]
In addition to financing its activities, Scroll and Key has made significant donations to Yale over the years. The John Addison Porter Prize, awarded annually since 1872, and in 1917 the endowment for the founding of the Yale University Press, which has funded the publication of The Yale Shakespeare and sponsored the Yale Younger Poets Series, are gifts from "Keys".
Traditions[edit]
- At the close of Thursday and Sunday sessions, members are known to sing the "Troubadour" song on the front steps of the Society's hall, a remnant of the tradition of public singing at Yale.[4][5] The song (written in the 1820s by Thomas Haynes Bayly) was recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford on his 1956 album, This Lusty Land, as "Gaily the Troubador".
- In keeping with the practice of adopting secret letters or symbols such as Skull and Bones' "322," Manuscript's "344," and the Pundits' "T.B.I.Y.T.B," Scroll and Key is known to use the letters "C.S.P. and C.C.J."[6]
- Members of the society sign letters to each other "YiT", as opposed to Skull and Bones' "yours in 322".[6]
- Outside of its tap-related activities, the society has been known to hold two major annual events called "Z Session".[6]
Architecture[edit]
The society's "building" was designed in the Moorish Revival style by Richard Morris Hunt and constructed in 1870.[7] A later expansion was completed in 1901. Architectural historian Patrick Pinnell includes an in-depth discussion of Keys' building in his 1999 history of Yale's campus, relating the then-notable cost overruns associated with the Keys structure and its aesthetic significance within the campus landscape. Pinnell's history shares the fact that the land was purchased from another Yale secret society, Berzelius (at that time, a Sheffield Scientific School society). In 2002, the society underwent a major construction project rumored to involve an aquarium beneath the society.[citation needed]
Regarding its distinctive appearance, Pinnell noted that "19th-century artists' studios commonly had exotic orientalia lying about to suggest that the painter was sophisticated, well traveled, and in touch with mysterious powers; Hunt's Scroll and Key is one instance in which the trope got turned into a building."[8] Later, undergraduates described the building as a "striped zebra Billiard Hall" in a supplement to a Yale yearbook.[9] More recently, it has been described by an undergraduate publication as being "the nicest building in all of New Haven.".[10]
Membership[edit]
Scroll and Key taps annually a delegation of fifteen, composed of men and women of the junior class, to serve the following year. Membership is offered to a diverse group of highly accomplished juniors, specifically those who have "achieved in any field, academic, extra-curricular, or personal."[11] Delegations frequently include editors of the Yale Daily News and other publications, artists and musicians, social and political activists, athletes of distinction, entrepreneurs, and high achieving scholars.[12][13]
Mark Twain is an honorary member, under the auspices of Joseph Twichell, Yale College Class of 1859.[14]
Notable members[edit]
Name | Yale class | Notability | References |
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Leonard Case Jr. | 1842 | Founder of Case School of Applied Science, later Case Western Reserve University | [15] |
Theodore Runyon | 1842 | Envoy and Ambassador to Germany; Battle of Bull Run | [15] |
Carter Henry Harrison | 1845 | Mayor of Chicago and U.S. Representative | [15] |
Homer Sprague | 1852 | President of the University of North Dakota | |
Randall L. Gibson | 1853 | U.S. Senator, Confederate Brigadier-General, and president of Tulane University | [15] |
George Shiras Jr. | 1853 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice | [15] |
John Dalzell | 1865 | U.S. Congress | [15] |
George Bird Grinnell | 1870 | Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer | [16] |
Edward Salisbury Dana | 1871 | American mineralogist | [15] |
Fred Dubois | 1872 | U.S. Senator | [15] |
Henry deForest | 1876 | Southern Pacific Railroad | [15] |
Gilbert Colgate | 1883 | President and Chairman of Colgate & Co. | [15] |
George Edgar Vincent | 1885 | President of the University of Minnesota; President of the Rockefeller Foundation | [17] |
James Gamble Rogers | 1889 | architect, designed many of Yale's buildings | [17] |
Herbert Parsons | 1890 | U.S. Congress | [15] |
Harvey Cushing | 1891 | Neurosurgeon, considered father of brain surgery | [17] |
William Nelson Runyon | 1892 | Acting Governor of New Jersey | [15] |
Frank Polk | 1894 | Secretary of State, Davis Polk & Wardwell, managed the conclusion to World War I | [15] |
Allen Wardwell | 1895 | Davis Polk & Wardwell; Bank of New York; Vice-President of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce | [15] |
Lewis Sheldon | 1895 | Paris Peace Conference, Olympic medalist | [15] |
Cornelius Vanderbilt III | 1895 | Brigadier General in the U.S. Army during the World War I | [17] |
William Adams Delano | 1895 | architect; designed many of Yale's buildings | [15] |
Joseph Medill McCormick | 1900 | U.S. Senate and publisher of the Chicago Tribune | [15] |
Joseph M. Patterson | 1901 | Founder of the New York Daily News; manager of the Chicago Tribune | [17] |
Robert R. McCormick | 1903 | Chicago Tribune; Kirkland & Ellis[15] | [15] |
James C. Auchincloss | 1908 | U.S. Congress, Governor of the NYSE., US Military Intelligence World War I | [15] |
William C. Bullitt | 1912 | Ambassador to France, Ambassador to the Soviet Russia | [15] |
Mortimer R. Proctor | 1912 | Governor of Vermont | [15] |
Cole Porter | 1913 | Entertainer, songwriter | [18] |
Dean Acheson | 1915 | 51st Secretary of State | [15] |
Wayne Chatfield-Taylor | 1916 | President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | [19] |
Dickinson W. Richards | 1917 | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [15] |
Ethan A. H. Shepley | 1918 | Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis | [15] |
John Enders | 1919 | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [15] |
Brewster Jennings | 1920 | Founder and president of the Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York | [15] |
Seymour H. Knox | 1920 | American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company | [15] |
Richardson Dilworth | 1921 | Mayor of Philadelphia | [20] |
William Hawks | 1923 | Film producer | [21] |
James Stillman Rockefeller | 1924 | President and chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal | [15] |
Huntington D. Sheldon | 1925 | Central Intelligence Agency; President of the Petroleum Corporation of America | [15] |
Newbold Morris | 1925 | New York lawyer and politician | [15] |
Benjamin Spock | 1925 | Pediatrician, author, and Olympic gold medalist | [19] |
John Hay Whitney | 1926 | U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of New York Herald Tribune | [22] |
Frederic A. Potts | 1926 | Chairman, Philadelphia National Bank; New Jersey Senate | [15] |
Paul Mellon | 1929 | Philanthropist | [19] |
Benjamin Brewster | 1929 | Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon) | [15] |
Raymond R. Guest | 1931 | U.S. Ambassador to Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense | [15] |
Donald R. McLennan | 1931 | Founder and chairman, insurance brokerage firm Marsh McLennan | [15] |
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. | 1933 | Mayor of New York City | [23] |
J. Peter Grace | 1936 | W. R. Grace & Co. | |
Peter H. Dominick | 1937 | U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland | [24] |
Sargent Shriver | 1938 | Peace Corps; Vice-Presidential Candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom | [15] |
Cyrus Vance | 1939 | Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | [15] |
Robert D. Orr | 1940 | Governor of Indiana; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore | [15] |
Cord Meyer, Jr. | 1943 | Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists | [15] |
George Roy Hill | 1943 | Academy Award for Directing The Sting | [15] |
Frederick B. Dent | 1944 | U.S. Secretary of Commerce | [15] |
John Vliet Lindsay | 1944 | Mayor of New York City, Congressman from New York City | [23] |
Thomas Enders | 1953 | Ambassador to Spain, Ambassador to European Union, Ambassador to Canada | [15] |
Philip B. Heymann | 1954 | Watergate Special Prosecutor, Deputy U.S. Attorney General; professor at Harvard Law School | [15] |
Warren Zimmermann | 1956 | U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, author | [15] |
Roscoe S. Suddarth | 1956 | President of the Middle East Institute; U.S. Ambassador to Jordan | [15] |
Calvin Trillin | 1957 | writer | [25] |
A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1960 | Yale University president; National League president, MLB Commissioner | [19] |
Peter Beard | 1961 |
Photographer |
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Garry Trudeau | 1970 | Doonesbury cartoonist | [19] |
Stone Phillips | 1977 | Dateline NBC | [15] |
Rick E. Lawrence | 1977 | Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court | [15] |
Gideon Rose | 1985 | Foreign Affairs | [15] |
Fareed Zakaria | 1986 | editor of Newsweek and host of CNN show | |
Dave Baseggio | 1989 | Director of Professional Scouting for the Seattle Kraken | |
Dahlia Lithwick | 1990 | Editor at Newsweek and Slate | [26] |
Jeannie Rhee | 1994 | Special Council member for the Obstruction of Justice Investigation | [27] |
Alexandra Robbins | 1998 | Journalist | [28] |
Ari Shapiro | 2000 | Co-host of All Things Considered for National Public Radio | [26] |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Jackson, Abby. "7 of Yale's super-elite secret societies ranked by wealth". Business Insider. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
- ^ Caro, Robert (1974). The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-48076-3. OCLC 834874.
- ^ Four years at Yale. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & Co, 1871. p. 158.
- ^ Collision at Home Plate: The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti. James Reston, U of Nebraska Press, 1997. p. 41. ISBN 0-8032-8964-2
- ^ Four years at Yale. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & Co, 1871. p. 163.
- ^ a b c Four years at Yale. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & Co, 1871. p. 157.
- ^ "Scroll and Key Tomb". June 8, 2013.
- ^ Pinnell, Patrick (1999). The Campus Guide: Yale University. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-56898-167-3. Retrieved November 10, 2008.
- ^ Andrews, John.History of the Founding of Wolf's Head,pg. 56, Lancaster Press, 1934
- ^ "Franco's "little place in New Haven": where will it be? [POLL]". yaleherald.com. May 6, 2010. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ Yale University Library Digital Collections: Compound Object Viewer Archived 2011-04-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.ivygateblog.com/?s=scroll+and+key, see membership lists
- ^ A cross-reference with recent members (available on IvyGateBlog.com and in print issues of the Yale Rumpus) and scholarship winners will indicate the high number of Scroll and Key members
- ^ Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2, 1867–1868, University of California Press, editors Harriet E. Smith, Richard Bucci and Lin Salamo, pg. 281
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- ^ Taliaferro, John (June 4, 2019). Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West. Liveright. ISBN 978-1-63149-014-9.
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- ^ "Tap Day Exercises are held at Yale" (PDF). New York Times. May 20, 1921. Retrieved November 10, 2008.
- ^ "Yale 'Tap Day' Brings Honors to Rowing Men". New York Tribune. New York, N.Y. May 18, 1923. p. 9.
- ^ "Yale Alumni Magazine: John Hay Whitney". Yale Alumni Publications inc. May 2002. Archived from the original on December 30, 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2011.
- ^ a b "Mary A. Harrison, Lawyers Fiance. Vassar Graduate Will Be Bride of John V. Lindsay, Former Lieutenant in the Navy". New York Times. October 11, 1948. p. 29. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
- ^ "J. Peter Grace — Business Executive, leading Catholic layman, Advisor to three U.S. Presidents — dies at age 81. | Government > Government Bodies & Offices from AllBusiness.com". Allbusiness.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved October 17, 2008.
- ^ Remembering Denny – Google Books
- ^ a b "Archived copy". www.ctrl.org. Archived from the original on October 9, 2007. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
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- ^ "Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush". Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2007.