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Originally posted by chief_counsellor
I don't know the membership lists..but I do know, they only tap 15 seniors at Yale every year. So there are around 800 bonesmen alive at one time.
Originally posted by DeltaChaos
Thanks, hierarch for the links.
No, I'm nowhere near Yale, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to get very detailed information on this subject the further away from the east coast I get.
Originally posted by DeltaChaos
I also believe that there are others that are admitted to the order after college days are over.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Originally posted by DeltaChaos
I also believe that there are others that are admitted to the order after college days are over.
Only Yale students are admitted. Like other college fraternities/sororities, once the student graduates, the Bones membership turns emeritus, and he/she retires from active membership.
Originally posted by DeltaChaos
How do you know this?
Porter Goss was a member of Wolf's Head, I believe, another Yale club. Could not other similar societies have a function of catching overspill, that is, people who may have been tapped for membership, but since competition was tight that year, they were relegated to an associate membership in another club. Sort of a strategic reserve, if you will. You would want to keep around all the potential candidates for greatness and glory you could, wouldn't you? Just in order to ensure that should events dictate, you would have a backup. Always have a backup, isn't that the rule?
Originally posted by DeltaChaos
So what you are saying is that once college is over, these people don't continue the network, and help each other in their professional endeavors, and that there is no goal to the group other than to be members of an exclusive club in college. Right?
I like Ike
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Originally posted by Indigo_Child
No, actually they remain members for life.
Masonic light, please, this is not just a college fraternity, stop trivialising it.
Originally posted by DeltaChaos
When I see that these people hold seats of power in so many aspects of American institution, and when it seems on many points that whoever is in charge doesn't really have the good of the public in mind, the question must be asked. And answered.
What exactly have they been up to these last couple of centuries?
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Actually, it is "just a college fraternity." That's what college fraternities are.