![]() ![]() ![]() The FCs and the senior societies at Yale both fulfill a social/professional purpose, but they fulfill those functions in very different ways. The senior societies aren’t really that ‘secretive’ anymore and Harvard doesn’t really have anything equivalent. There are websites that claim the Skull and Bones Society dates back to 1832, when it 'paid obeisance to Eulogia, the goddess of eloquence, who took her place in the pantheon upon the death of the. (Yalies can correct me here on the details). Each class has around 13-15 people, and quite a few spots are ‘passed down’–from what I hear, some spots are reserved for heads of other prominent campus orgs such as the incoming editor in chief of the Daily or the MD of the Whiffenpoofs or something like that. In 1832, Yale students including future President William Howard Taft's father founded one of America's most famous secret societies: Skull and Bones. S&B is a senior society, along with Wolf’s Head and Scroll and Key and a few others. Also, usually people punch for the final clubs in sophomore and junior year they really function more like really fancy frats (or sororities) than anything else. There are a few female FCs but (at least when I was there) they did not have their own spaces. First off, the Porc (and all other FCs) are (currently) male-only, while the senior societies are co-ed. It did allow an opportunity to meet many people beyond whom I would have had a chance to interact. Ours was mostly a social society with lotsa drinking involved. The closest thing would probably be the Porc, but to be really honest, the final clubs are VERY, VERY different than the senior societies at Yale. I was in the Penn State Version of Skull and Bones (and proudly the first person inducted because of activism in the gay community). ![]()
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