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The president of the society, generally only referred to by strange nicknames, wore a pin with the initials "ES" below a Flemish Lion, the symbol of the Society, on graduation day. De Gang & the Sigma Tau Club were senior societies founded in the 1890s. Little is known about De Gang other than its membership rosters. It was founded in 1891.
Kappa Beta Phi (ΚΒΦ) is a secret society with at least one surviving chapter, based on Wall Street in New York City, that is made up of high-ranking financial executives. The purpose of the organization today is largely social and honorific. The current honor society meets once a year at a black-tie dinner to induct new members.
Secret societies can have ceremonial initiations, secret signs of recognition (gestures, handshakes, passwords), formal secrets (the 'true' name of the society, a motto, or society history). Traditional college fraternities or sororities, literary societies, honorary groups, and pre-professional fraternal can have similarly secret rituals but ...
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Secret societies in the United States (including those founded in the United States that later spread to other countries, and those founded/inspired elsewhere that came to the United States). Subcategories
The society hosts weekly Shabbat dinner meetings in New Haven, featuring a discussion-based format and an ethos of mutual improvement that has been likened to Benjamin Franklin's Junto Club. As one journalist described it, "like Yale's famous secret societies , Shabtai is elite and exclusive, but unlike the infamous Skull & Bones or Scroll ...
Clive Day (1892), Professor of economic history at Yale [49]: 10–11 Henry S. Graves (1892), co-founder and first Dean of Yale School of Forestry, 2nd chief of the U.S. Forest Service, founding member and 4th president of the Society of American Foresters [4]: 160 James William Husted Jr. (1892), US Representative [23]: 1392