When Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana sent a letter this spring to university President Drew Faust calling its storied men-only clubs antiquated and exclusionary, it triggered a passionate ...

It’s easy to see how secret societies ... Although Skull & Bones is arguably the most famous society in New Haven, it’s certainly not the only one: Yale’s roster of cloak-and-dagger clubs ...

Some secret societies safeguard religious secrets and trade skills ... such as “Spartacus,” to conceal their identities. This illustration of famous Freemasons features George Washington and several ...

Secret societies have existed since the rise of the ... orders devoted to holding and defending the Holy Land—the most famous of which were the Knights Templar. A modern reenactment of Templar ...

Another famous Italian student, Prof Villari, has given the following definition of the notorious society: "The Mafia has no written statutes; it is not a secret society and hardly an association ...

Secret societies, of one form or another ... The organisation is perhaps most famous for appearing in The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson in the 1970s, positing ...

But secret political societies are dangerous to the liberties of a free people, and should not be tolerated." A present-day reader might assume that these additions were designed to quash the Ku ...

As for the secret society, he said he sometimes "saw a bunch ... According to WPI, the building was used by one of its most famous alumni, Robert Goddard, the father of modern rocketry.