Word: scrolling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Upon that scroll with iron style I fain...
...think, at the same time, that it will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership - in short, a shingle - might be issued with an appropriate device; such as a scroll, held out by angels of the "Fallen Order," provided with horns, cloven feet, and all other usual accessories. If a skull and bones were placed at the top of this shingle, I have strong reason to hope that we should receive an assurance of kindred feeling from a certain society in that...
Upon a crumbling scroll...
...weapons of its rival, and in the editorial columns appears a reply, signed by the writer, attacking - also by name - the Record editor, and making use of the lowest Billingsgate. The root of the whole matter is evidently the high and mighty Senior societies, Skull and Bones, and Scroll and Keys, the advantages of which, the Record proudly says in a recent number, could never be supplied by the clubs of Harvard. The petty political bickerings which keep Yale in perpetual hot water do not lead us to envy the system there in vogue. To an unprejudiced mind it might...
...morning floating from the Chapel spire, bearing the emblems of the "Bones," and the significant words, "Death to." This was afterwards secured by a Sophomore as a "memorabil," and lodged in the room of a Senior, from which place it was removed by stealth. Suspicion pointed at the "Scroll and Keys," and a arrant was obtained to search their rooms for the stolen property. As the police, however, declined to allow any outsider to accompany them in their search, the prosecution was withdrawn. The Senior societies at Yale appear to afford grounds for much dissatisfaction among non-members, which...