A similar system was introduced at Wesleyan University in nearby Middletown, Connecticut, but with a pair of societies in each class year and dual memberships between class societies and college fraternities, so that most class society members were also fraternity members. The senior class societies continue prosper today without any of the lower class societies. This system has not survived the introduction of regular fraternities and other changes. Yale-type class societies also extended across northeastern colleges. This system kept Yale out of the more typical intercollegiate college fraternity system, although some regular college fraternities were created out of the Yale system. This process held from the 1840s to the 1910s. Delta Kappa Epsilon, a junior society, was created in reaction to a botched election process to the junior class societies in 1844. From time to time, there would be a coup, and one society would break the pattern, forcing the other societies to likewise change election strategies, or cause the creation of a new society. All the societies were independent, all had their own traditions, and each class-year pair or trio shared common traits appropriate to their class year the freshmen societies were rambunctious and owned little real property, the sophomore and junior ones were progressively more elaborate, (the sophomore ones regularly maintained live theater in their halls), and the senior ones were extremely small and elite, and with quite expensive property and celebrations.Įach of the societies had a link to a society in the class year before it and after it that is, members of one freshman society would all get elected to the same sophomore society year after year, and so on, so that there were two or three parallel sets of linked societies. There were two, (then three), senior societies, three junior societies, two sophomore societies, and two freshman societies. In the traditional Yale system societies were organized by class year. The oldest surviving undergraduate secret societies at Yale parallel various 19th century fraternal organizations. The term " Secret society" at Yale University encompasses organizations with many shared but not identical characteristics.
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