Yale Secret Societies #1 Traditional Cache
Blue Onager: Sorry but the series of Secret Societies Caches won't happen. I can not get approval for the placement of #3. The reason for this is that there is another cache close by. I would have to move #3 600 feet away. By doing this you would not have a very good look at the "tomb" and would defeat the spirit in which these caches were placed.
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Book and Snake, a.k.a. the Cloisters, is reputed to harbor a high proportion of athletes and fraternity and sorority members. They are also rumored to hold wild parties.
This will be a series of caches dedicated to the Yale Secret Societies. The Society of Book and Snake is one of the oldest secret societies at Yale University. Book and Snake was founded at the Sheffield Scientific School in 1863 as a three-year society bearing the Greek letters Sigma Delta Chi. As other "Sheff" societies, it was once residential and maintained a separate residential building (or "Hall") built in 1888 (it is, however, no longer standing). Each year Book and Snake taps 16 new members, which is also in contrast to the others, most of which tap fifteen. Members are said to be leaders in different activities on campus and representative of Yale's academic, athletic, artistic and social scenes.
Book & Snake's reputation is "progressive" in its membership selection, in contrast to reputed "conservative" criteria considered by other societies. B&S became a Yale senior society in 1933, and regards itself as the first senior secret society at Yale to accept minorities and women. (However, Manuscript also claims the first female tap, while another former "Sheff" secret society, St. Anthony Hall, as a three-year society, was able to tap female sophomores after Yale College became co-ed in 1969; moreover, the Elihu Club tapped a Native American in 1909.)
Book and Snake owns its own meeting hall, or "tomb", similarly to other Yale societies.
As is traditional with the meeting places of Yale societies, the building is windowless and available only to the current members and alumni; parties have been held that include friends of members, however. Inside the tomb, alumni members customarily leave their own pewter or glass tankard with their name inscribed, hung on hooks in their dining area for their use whenever they return, making tangible a display of the generations that have come before. It is said that when a member is deceased, his or her tankard is symbolically destroyed by breaking or piercing the glass or metal bottom of the tankard.
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