SKULL-n-BONES
THE SKULL AND BONES, the elite Yale University Society whose members include some of the most powerful men of the 20th century, 'Bonesmen', as they're called, are forbidden to reveal what goes on in their inner sanctum, the Gothic-style, windowless building on the Yale campus that is called the Tomb.
SKULL AND BONES, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in 1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time. Since then, it has chosen or "tapped" only 15 senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate--- lifetime members of the ultimate old boys' club.
ONE EXPERT who studied the Society for over 30 years, summed up their essence in these words: "Their preoccupation with bones, mortality, with coffins, lying in coffins, standing around coffins, all this sort of thing I think is designed to give them the sense that, (and it's very true), life is short. "You can spend it, if you have a privileged background, enjoying yourself, contributing nothing, or you can spend it making a contribution to the World."
SKULL AND BONES, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in 1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time. Since then, it has chosen or "tapped" only 15 senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate--- lifetime members of the ultimate old boys' club.
ONE EXPERT who studied the Society for over 30 years, summed up their essence in these words: "Their preoccupation with bones, mortality, with coffins, lying in coffins, standing around coffins, all this sort of thing I think is designed to give them the sense that, (and it's very true), life is short. "You can spend it, if you have a privileged background, enjoying yourself, contributing nothing, or you can spend it making a contribution to the World."
