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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 ...
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.
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.
Mace and Chain is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.One of eight such groups that own their own clubhouse, or "tomb", it was founded in 1956 with the mission of providing fifteen rising seniors with the traditional senior society experience in a freer, more modern setting.
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 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]
The Yale Glee Club is a mixed chorus of men and women, consisting of students of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1861, it is the third oldest collegiate chorus in the United States after the Harvard Glee Club , founded in 1858, and the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club , founded in 1859.
Membership in the Elizabethan Club, by invitation only, includes undergraduates (15 members are elected per class year; however, freshmen are not admitted; accordingly there are at most 45 current undergraduates at any time), graduate students, university staff, and faculty.