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Manuscript Society is a senior secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Toward the end of each junior year, 16 undergraduates are "tapped" to be inducted into the society, which meets twice weekly for dinner and discussion (once per week with undergraduates only, once with alumni, honorary members and invited guests). Undergraduates are selected for their strength in academics, extracurricular activities, character and commitment to truth. Manuscript is known for having the best of the intellectual and artistic undergraduates among its members and calls itself an "Arts and Letters" society. ==History and Traditions== Founded in 1952, Manuscript was Yale's seventh "landed" senior society; that is, its alumni trust owns its building, or "tomb." Manuscript was one of the first of the "above-ground" senior societies to tap women along with St. Elmo. Each delegation is elected by a consensus of Manuscript alumni, trustee members, and others, unlike other secret societies, where undergraduate members shoulder more of the burden of selecting, recruiting and initiating their descendants.〔("Tombs & Taps" section of online Magazine ), retrieved 2010〕 The Wrexham Foundation is the society's alumni board of trustees. Since 1956, the foundation has underwritten a scholarship in the humanities for a "senior who shall be judged to have written the best senior essay in the field of the humanities." Administered by Yale, it is given in memory of Wallace Notestein, M.A. 1903, Ph.D. 1908, Litt.D. 1951.〔(Yale University | Office of the Secretary )〕 Manuscript also briefly played host to the 1991-92 classes of Skull and Bones, who were temporarily locked out of their own tomb by alumni who objected to its undergraduates' decision to tap women for the first time in the spring of 1991.〔 It holds the number 344 to be sacred.〔 Possible explanations of this include the fact that this was the date that the Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, travelled from Assus to Lesbos to study natural history and marine biology.〔Article on 344 BC〕 The Society supposedly holds Enlightenment ideals, and the sun and sunflowers are both important symbols to members.〔(Havemeyer, Loomis. 1960. ''"Go to your room"; a story of undergraduate societies and fraternities at Yale''. New Haven : 1960. )〕 The society also retained close connections with the campus literary society ''Chi Delta Theta'' in the early 1950s.〔(Yale Extracurricular and Social Organizations publication ), retrieved 26 March 2012〕 The society holds an annual gathering in its tomb on Halloween. A Manuscript event is described in the novel ''Joe College'' by Tom Perrotta.〔(Perotta, T. ''Joe College'' (New York, St. Martins : 2005) pp. 105-116 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manuscript Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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