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Wolf's Head is a senior secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. [1] It was establihsed in 1883. [2] Originally an all-male organization, women have been tapped for membership since the spring of 1992. [3]
The society is one of the "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. [2] Active undergraduate membership is elected annually with sixteen Yale University students, typically rising seniors. Honorary members are elected. The current delegation spends its year together answerable to an alumni association.
There also is a fundamentally distinct type of literary society, that, although formed at a college and following the same forms and kinds of literary exercises, was limited to a small subset of the college. These are private literary societies, such as Phi Beta Kappa or Yale's Elizabethan Club. Membership is usually by invitation.
The Yale Club was created in 1897 by the Old Yale Alumni Association of New York, a 29-year-old organization that wanted a permanent clubhouse. One of the incorporators was Senator Chauncey Depew , whose 1890 portrait by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury hangs in the building.
Aurelian’s history has been defined by its history of service to Yale and to the broader community. Today, The Aurelian Honor Society Robert H. O’Connor Scholarship is awarded each year to a Yale senior. The Aurelian Honor Society Book Prize is given annually at secondary schools across the country to students those schools consider exemplary.
The second-oldest Latin-letter society, the P.D.A. Society ("Please Don't Ask"), in 1776 refused entry to John Heath, then a student at the college; rebuffed, he in the same year established the first Greek-letter secret society at the college, the Phi Beta Kappa, modeling it on the two older fraternities (see the Flat Hat Club). The Phi Beta ...
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St. Elmo Society, or Elmo's, is a secret society for seniors at Yale University. [1] It was founded in 1889 as part of the national fraternity, Delta Phi (ΔΦ). [2] [3] St. Elmo's is a member of the “ancient eight consortium” which includes the seven other original societies at Yale: Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Wolf's Head, Book and Snake, Elihu, and Mace and Chain.