![]() ![]() The interested reader will search in vain for any mention of these organizations or their influence because they are, indeed, secret. Halsted, despite being football captain and a talented player on the baseball team, was not tapped by either one. Both Gilman and Welch belonged to Skull and Bones, while Harvey Cushing was a member of Scroll and Key and may have turned down a tap from Bones. Running like a golden thread through this story are Yale's secret societies, dominated by the famous Skull and Bones. In the second half of the 19th century, Yale College produced four men who were to play pivotal roles in creating a new and distinctly American kind of university and in the way medicine was taught in this country: One Harvard alumnus was quoted as saying that he intended to send his son to Yale because, “in real life, all the Harvard men are working for Yale men.” Yale men made such records that … to rival institutions and academic reformers there was something irritating and disquieting about old Yale College. Yale inspired a loyalty in its sons that was conspicuous and impressive. Yale was exasperately and mysteriously successful, and the power of the place remains unmistakable. The official history of the college puts it this way: It is worth noting that every name I have mentioned, including the fictitious ones, were members of Yale's famous secret society, Skull and Bones, except for those few who matriculated before Bones was founded in 1832. Yale's reputation was such that it even spawned fictitious Yalies such as Frank Merriwell and Dink Stover. White, founding president of Cornell and a future president of the United States, William Howard Taft. Willard Gibbs educators such as Timothy Dwight, future Yale president, and Andrew D. Calhoun scientists such as Benjamin Silliman and J. Morse men of letters such as Noah Webster statesmen such as John C. Numbered among Yale's graduates were inventors such as Eli Whitney and Samuel F. ![]() Having celebrated its centennial in the first year of the new century, the college was transforming itself from a regional New England school whose main function was the education of young men for the Congregational ministry to a dynamic national school whose new function was to train the leaders of the expanding, dynamic America that sprung into being in that century. 322 may be seen as a representation of the birthing process.During the 19th century, Yale College was an academic powerhouse. Thus we move from the central emanation point (a point without quantitative value) to the number 3 and out into the whole shape of 22 rays. The sum of the Sephir Yetzirah's parts are 22 (3+7+12). The idea of 3 blooming into 7 into 12 is a teaching derived from Jewish mysticism called the Sephir Yetzirah. 3x2x2 = 12 as in the number of months in a year, the number of colors on the color wheel, and the number of chromatic notes in a subdivided musical octave. There are four weeks per month in the Gregorian Calendar. The equation 4x4 may be spoken as "Four Squared". 32/2 = 16 (4x4) and ties directly into the idea of squares. There are 32 white squares and 32 black squares on a chess board. Thus the number 7 and 322 may hold a saturnalian resonance.Īlternatively, the number 322 may be seen as 32x2. In Roman mythology Saturn is the god of agriculture, founder of civilizations and of social order and conformity. Including the Sun, Saturn is the seventh planet in our solar system. The Gregorian Calendar places the first day of the week at Sunday and the seventh day of the week at Saturday. The use of 7 may likely be derived from the number three, due to the following set: Time is divided into 7 days of the week, light into 7 colors in a rainbow, octaves into 7 notes in a musical scale, and so on. The number 7 is commonly used to divide full spectrums into compartments. The sum of its constituent parts is 7 (3+2+2). They call themselves the Knights of Eulogia.ģ22 has many core numerological implications. They begin each session in the tomb, and they meet twice weekly by unveiling a guilt shrine to Eulogia. They sing sacred anthems, and are encouraged to steal things, some remarkably valuable items, to bring back as gifts for the goddess. Skull and Bones does everything in deference to this goddess. When he died, the goddess Eulogia whom Skull and Bones called the goddess of eloquence, arose to the heavens and didn't return until 1832, where she took up residence in The Tomb of Skull and Bones. Kerry, both of whom were members of Skull and Bones.Īccording to Skull and Bones lore, in the year 322 B.C. The 2004 elections held in the United States took place between two candidates, George W. The number 322 is most well known for it's association with the Yale fraternity Skull and Bones (Also, Scull and Bones). ![]()
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