Show SOCIETIES ABOUT THE FAMOUS organizations OF YALE barany proceedings on the camans of the kew haven peculiar kite and Cere of skull did scroll ami key aud wolf bead the election ceremonies to tho end bohas scroll and key end wolfs head societies of yale university are very impressive the members of the junior class on the afternoon of this day gather in little knots in front of one of the big buildings which are used by tha scholars Echo lars as sleeping rooms the windows 0 every other building which commands a view of the expectant students on the campus below are crowded with other scholars and their friends suddenly a solemn looking young man comes around a corner of one of the dormitories mi tories he goes straight toward tha waiting crowd without a word to any one he walks in among the fellows many of whom are his friends without noticing anybody every other student stands perfectly still and without turning his head follows with his eyes tha movements of the mysterious looking fellow who has recently appeared and who is going up and down up and docu in and out in and out among the crowd looking at nobody speaking to no one apparently seeing nothing then he goes around in 0 circle all hold their breath the people ia the windows on every side lean a little farther out and watch with increased interest it is a moment of intense sus pensel all of a sudden the quiet man on whom everybody s eyes are fastened slaps a fellow student right between the shoulders and almost knocks him over then a great shout goes up the students on the campus are yelling themselves hoarse the crowded windows are alive with frantic men and women who are waving handkerchief sand hats clapping hands and laughing each adding something to the terrible uproar meanwhile the student who was slapped on the back ia the happiest man in the immense crowd for he has been elected 6 member of skull and bones the famous secret society of the university the first thice tha fortunate student does when ha realizes that he has been clapped is to go straight to his room out a vard to his most intimate chum or even to the man who has so rudely struck him he is followed by tho man who did the slapping and who all thi time has not even EO much as smiled or said hallo to any one in fact has not recognized the man he is following except by the slap nobody knows except these two what takes place in the room and iho men are not seen again that day for the interest of the people outside is centered on another man who has come from the came as the first one and who is going through exactly the earns performances for mances that the first fellow executed bhea he finally slaps a man another great shout goes up and then these two students go away to the room of the one whose back has been slapped these scenes are repeated until forty men have been slapped for that is the number composing the three societies each society ia made up of fifteen men no more and no lea and each member is taid to choose one student when the forty five have been selected the elections are over and the people go home feeling that they have witnessed an event mor interesting and more exciting than the graduating exercises which take place when a whole class nr about to leave the school nothing more is done to mhd students who have been slapped until the nest tuesday what occurs then is been by nobody axce a few of the students who gather in front of the secret society houses the name even of the societies art not known they are called skull and bones scroll and key and wolfs head because each member wears 3 little gold pin with one or another oi these objects on it as the case may be the skull and bones pin isa horriS bit of gold in the shape of a human skull and crossbones the scroll and key as the name implies is made ap of small sheet of gold like an ancient of paper on the scroll is a key above the key are the letters C S P and below the key are the letter 0 C J what they stand for only the bearers wearers of tho pins know the other society has for its pin a little gold head of a savage looking wolf often the eyes are made of two brightly shining another wonderful thing about chese pins is that the wearer never loses one ha never lays it down even for a second of course they have to bathe and how do you so suppose they do then you would think they would have to lay the piu aside at that time anyway yon but they dont they hold the bit of gold in their bones is the oldest of the three societies cie ties tradition has it that the pina first appeared in 1832 about ten years later men who had expected an election to bones and were disappointed organized the scroll and key wolfs head was founded less than ten years ago but today is almost as exclusive in its membership as either of the others in fact it generally represents as much wealth among its members as the two other societies combined new york herald hi BB ti g 11 1 poolla at joaie i 0 a are awfully ily swell vre selling last |