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America's Secret Establishment
An introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones
by ANTONY C. SUTTON
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How The Order Controls Education
Further Influence Of The Order - Post-1900
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
President 1910-1934, Wm. H. Welch ('70)
American EconomicAssociation
- first Secretary Richard T. Ely
Union TheologicalSeminary
- President 1926 -1945 Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin - ('97)
U.S. NavalAcademy
William Chauvenet ('40)
UNESCO - Constitution
Archibald MacLeish ('15)
Memorandum Number One:
It All Began At Yale
The first volume of this series introduced The Order, presented three
preliminary hypotheses with examples of the evidence to come.
We also asserted that any group that wanted to control the future of
American society had first to control education, i.e., the population of
the future. This volume will outline the way in which education has
been controlled by The Order.
It all began at Yale. Even the official Yale history is aware of Yale's
power and success:
"The power of the place remain(s) unmistakable. Yale was or-
ganized. Yale inspired a loyalty in its sons that was conspicuouorking for
each other. In short, Yale was exasperatingly and mysteriously successful. To
rival institutions and to academic reformers there was something irritating
and disquieting about old Yale College. (1)
"Yale was exasperatingly and mysteriously successful," says the of-
ficial history.
And this success was more than obvious to Yale's chief competitor,
Harvard University. So obvious, in fact, that in 1892 a young Harvard
instructor, George Santanyana, went to Yale to investigate this "disturb-
ing legend" of Yale power. Santanyana quoted a Harvard alumnus who intended to
send his son to Yale - because in real life "all the Har-
vard men are working for Yale men. (2)
But no one has previously asked an obvious question - Why? What
is this "Yale power"?
A Revolutionary Yale Trio
In the 1850s, three members of The Order left Yale and working
together, at times with other members along the way, made a revolu-
tion that changed the face, direction and purpose of American educa-
tion. It was a rapid, quiet revolution, and eminently successful. The
American people even today, in 1983, are not aware of a coup d'etat.
The revolutionary trio were:
* Timothy Dwight ('49) Professor in the Yale Divinity School and
then 12th President of Yale University.
* Daniel Coit Gilman ('52), first President of the University of
California, first President of the Johns Hopkins University and
first President of the Carnegie Institution.
* Andrew Dickson White ('53), first President of Cornell Universi-
ty and first President of the American Historical Association.
This notable trio were all initiated into The Order within a few years of
each other (1849, 1852, 1853). They immediately set off for Europe.
All three went to study philosophy at the University of Berlin, where
post-Hegelian philosophy had a monopoly.
* Dwight studied at the Universities of Berlin and Bonn between
1856 and 1858,
* Gilman was at the University of Berlin between 1854 and 55
under Karl von Ritter and Friedrich Trendelenberg, both
prominent "Right" Hegelians, and
* White studied at the University of Berlin between 1856 and
1858
.
Notably also at the University of Berlin in 1856 (at the Institute of
Physiology) was none other than Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of ex-
perimental psychology in Germany and the later source of the dozens of
American PhDs who came back from Leipzig, Germany to start the
modern American education movement.
Why is the German experience so important? Because these were the
formative years, the immediate post graduate years for these three
men, the years when they were planning the future, and at this period
Germany was dominated by the Hegelian philosophical ferment.
There were two groups of these Hegelians. The right Hegelians, were
the roots of Prussian militarism and the spring for the unification of Germany
and the rise of Hitler. Key names among right Hegelians were
Karl Ritter (at the University of Berlin where our trio studied). Baron
von Bismarck, and Baron von Stockmar, confidential adviser to Queen
Victoria over in England. Somewhat before this, Karl Theodor Dalberg
(1744-1817), arch-chancellor in the German Reich, related to Lord
Acton in England and an Illuminati (Baco v Verulam in the Illuminati
code), was a right Hegelian.
There were also Left Hegelians, the promoters of scientific socialism.
Most famous of these, of course, are Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels,
Heinrich Heine, Max Stirner and Moses Hess.
The point to hold in mind is that both groups use Hegelian theory of
the State as a start point, i.e., the State is superior to the individual.
Prussian militarism, Nazism and Marxism have the same philosophical
roots.
And it left its mark on our trio.
(1)George Wilson Pierson. YALE. COLLEGE 1871-1922 (Yale University Press. New
Haven. 1952) Volume One. p 5
(2) E. E. Slosson. GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES (New York 11910) pp 59-60
Daniel Coit Gilman
Gilman wrote his sister in 1854 that what he most desired to do on
returning home to America was to "influence New England minds".
An extract from one Gilman letter is worth quoting at length.
Gilman wrote his sister from St. Petersburg in April, 1854:
And what do you think I am "keeping" for? Tell me, some day
when you write, for every year makes me feel that I must draw
nearer to a point. When I go home to America I must have some
definite notions. Day and night I think of that time, and in all I see
and do I am planning for being useful at home. I find my wishes
cling more and more towards a home in New England, and I long
for an opportunity to influence New England minds. If I am an
editor, New York is the place but, to tell the truth, I am a little
afraid of its excitements, its politics, its money-making whirl. I look
therefore more and more to the ministry as probably the place
where I can do more good than anywhere else; that is to say, if I
can have a congregation which will let me preach such things as we
have talked over so many times in our up-stairs confabs. I am glad
you remember those talks with pleasure, for I look upon them as
among the greatest "providences" of my life. If ever I make
anything in this world or another I shall owe it to the blessed in-
fluences of home. For me, it seems as though new notions and
wider views of men and things were crowding upon me with
wonderful rapidity, and every day and almost every hour I think of
some new things which I wish to have accomplished in America. . . .
I find my thoughts, unconsciously, almost, dwelling on the applica-
tions of Christianity or the principles of the New Testament to
business, study, public education, political questions, travel, and so
forth. I had a long talk with Mr. Porter in Berlin (it was three days
long with occasional interruptions) on topics related to such as I
have named, and he assures me that there are many places in New
England ripe for the advocacy of some such views upon these
questions as I have often hinted to you at home. I told him a great
deal about my thoughts on such things, talking quite as freely and
perhaps more fully than I have ever done with you girls at home.
He seemed exceedingly interested . . . . He told me that the kind of
preaching I spoke of was the kind now needed - the kind which
would be most influential of good - and on the whole he en-
couraged me to attempt it. I feel more and more desirous to do so,
and shall keep on, in all I see and hear abroad, with the examina-
tion of every influence now working upon men - churches and
schools, politics and literature . . .(1)
Daniel Coit Gilman is the key activist in the revolution-of education by
The Order. The Gilman family came to the United States from Norfolk,
England in 1638. On his mother's side, the Coit family came from
Wales to Salem, Massachusetts before 1638.
(1)Fabian Franklin. THE LIFE OF DANIEL COIT GILMAN (Dodd, Mead New York.
1910). pp 28-9
Gilman was born in Norwich, Connecticut July 8, 1831, from a fami-
ly laced with members of The Order and links to Yale College (as it was
known at that time).
Uncle Henry Coit Kingsley (The Order '34) was Treasurer of Yale
from 1862 to 1886. James I. Kingsley was Gilman's uncle and a Prof-
fessor at Yale. William M. Kingsley, a cousin, was editor of the influen-
tial journal New Englander.
On the Coit side of the family, Joshua Coit was a member of The
Order in 1853 as well as William Coit in 1887.
Gilman's brother-in-law, the Reverend Joseph Parrish Thompson
('38) was in The Order.
Gilman returned from Europe in late 1855 and spent the next 14
years in New Haven, Connecticut - almost entirely in and around
Yale, consolidating the power of The Order.
His first task in 1856 was to incorporate Skull & Bones as a legal
entity under the name of The Russell Trust. Gilman became Treasurer
and William H. Russell, the cofounder, was President. It is notable that
there is no mention of The Order, Skull & Bones, The Russell Trust, or
any secret society activity in Gilman's biography, nor in open records.
The Order, so far as its members are concerned, is designed to be
secret, and apart from one or two inconsequential slips, meaningless
unless one has the whole picture. The Order has been remarkably adept
at keeping its secret. In other words, The Order fulfills our first
requirement for a conspiracy - i.e., IT IS SECRET.
The information on The Order that we are using surfaced by acci-
dent. In a way similar to the surfacing of the Illuminati papers in 1783
when a messenger carrying Illuminati papers was killed and the
Bavarian police found the documents. All that exists publicly for The
Order is the charter of the Russell Trust, and that tells you nothing.
On the public record then, Gilman became assistant Librarian at Yale
in the fall of 1856 and "in October he was chosen to fill a vacancy on the New
Haven Board of Education." In 1858 he was appointed Librarian
at Yale. Then he moved to bigger tasks.
The Sheffield Scientific School
The Sheffield Scientific School, the science departments at Yale, exemplifies
the way in which The Order came to control Yale and then the
United States.
In the early 1850s, Yale science was insignificant, just two or three
very small departments. In 1861 these were concentrated into the Shef-
field Scientific School with private funds from Joseph E. Sheffield.
Gilman went to work to raise more funds for expansion.
Gilman's brother had married the daughter of Chemistry Professor
Benjamin Silliman (The Order, 1837). This brought Gilman into contact
with Professor Dana, also a member of the Silliman family, and this
group decided that Gilman should write a report on reorganization of
Sheffield. This was done and entitled "Proposed Plan for the Complete
Reorganization of the School of Science Connected with Yale College."
While this plan was worked out, friends and members of The Order
made moves in Washington, D.C., and the Connecticut State
Legislature to get state funding for the Sheffield Scientific School. The
Morrill Land Bill was introduced into Congress in 1857, passed in 1859,
but vetoed by President Buchanan. It was later signed by President
Lincoln. This bill, now known as the Land Grant College Act, donated
public lands for State colleges of agriculture and sciences . . . . and of
course Gilman's report on just such a college was ready. The legal pro-
cedure was for the Federal government to issue land scrip in proportion
to a state's representation, but state legislatures first had to pass
legislation accepting the scrip. Not only was Daniel Gilman first on the scene
to get Federal land scrip, he was first among all the states and grabbed all
of Connecticut's share for Sheffield Scientific School!
Gilman had, of course, tailored his report to fit the amount forthcoming for
Connecticut. No other institution in Connecticut received even a whisper until
1893, when Storrs Agricultural College received a land grant.
Of course it helped that a member of The Order, Augustus
Brandegee ('49), was speaker of the Connecticut State Legislature in
1861 when the state bill was moving through, accepting Connecticut's
share for Sheffield. Other members of The Order, like Stephen W.
Kellogg ('46) and William Russell ('33), were either in the State
Legislature or had influence from past service.
The Order repeated the same grab for public funds in New York
State. All of New York's share of the Land Grant College Act went to
Cornell University. Andrew Dickson White, a member of our trio, was
the key activist in New York and later became first President of Cornell.
Daniel Gilman was rewarded by Yale and became Professor of Physical
Geography at Sheffield in 1863.
In brief, The Order was able to corner the total state shares for Con-
necticut and New York, cutting out other scholastic institutions. This is
the first example of scores we shall present in this series - how The
Order uses public funds for its own objectives.
And this, of course, is the great advantage of Hegel for an elite. The
State is absolute. But the State is also a fiction. So if The Order can
manipulate the State, it in effect becomes the absolute. A neat game.
And like the Hegelian dialectic process we cited in the first volume, The
Order has worked it like a charm.
Back to Sheffield Scientific School. The Order now had funds for
Sheffield and proceeded to consolidate its control. In February 1871 the
School was incorporated and the following became trustees:
Charles J. Sheffield
Prof. G.J. Brush (Gilman's close friend)
Daniel Coit Gilman (The Order, '52)
W.T. Trowbridge
John S. Beach (The Order, '39)
William W. Phelps (The Order, '60)
Out of six trustees, three were in The Order. In addition, George St.
John Sheffield, son of the benefactor, was initiated in 1863, and the
first Dean of Sheffield was J.A. Porter, also the first member of Scroll &
Key (the supposedly competitive senior society at Yale).
How The Order Came To Control Yale University
From Sheffield Scientific School The Order broadened its horizons.
The Order's control over all Yale was evident by the 1870s, even
under the administration of Noah Porter (1871-1881), who was not a
member. In the decades after the 1870s, The Order tightened its grip
The Iconoclast (October 13, 1873) summarizes the facts we have
presented on control of Yale by The Order, without being fully aware of
the details:
"They have obtained control of Yale. Its business is performed by
them. Money paid to the college must pass into their hands, and
be subject to their will. No doubt they are worthy men in
themselves, but the many whom they looked down upon while in
college, cannot so far forget as to give money freely into their
hands. Men in Wall Street complain that the college comes
straight to them for help, instead of asking each graduate for his
share. The reason is found in a remark made by one of Yale's and
America's first men: 'Few will give but Bones men, and they care
far more for their society than they do for the college.' The
Woolsey Fund has but a struggling existence, for kindred
reasons."
"Here, then, appears the true reason for Yale's poverty. She is
controlled by a few men who shut themselves off from others, and
assume to be their superiors . . ."
The anonymous writer of Iconoclast blames The Order for the pover-
ty of Yale. But worse was to come. Then-President Noah Porter
the last of the clerical Presidents of Yale (1871-1881), and the last
without either membership or family connections to The Order.
After 1871 the Yale Presidency became almost a fiefdom for The
Order.
From 1886 to 1899, member Timothy Dwight ('49) was President,
followed by another member of The Order, Arthur Twining Hadley
(1899 to 1921) . Then came James R. Angell (1921-37) , not a member
of The Order, who came to Yale from the University of Chicago where
he worked with Dewey, built the School of Education, and was past
President of the American Psychological Association.
From 1937 to 1950 Charles Seymour, a member of The Order, was
President followed by Alfred Whitney Griswold from 1950 to 1963
Griswold was not a member, but both the Griswold and Whitney
families have members in The Order. For example, Dwight Torrey
Griswold ('08) and William Edward Schenk Griswold ('99) were in The
Order. In 1963 Kingman Brewster took over as President. The Brewster
family has had several members in The Order, in law and the ministry
rather than education.
We can best conclude this memorandum with a quotation from the
anonymous Yale observer:
"Whatever want the college suffers, whatever is lacking in her
educational course, whatever disgrace lies in her poor buildings,
whatever embarrassments have beset her needy students, so far
as money could have availed, the weight of blame lies upon the
ill-starred society. The pecuniary question is one of the future as
well as of the present and past. Year by year the deadly evil is
growing. The society was never as obnoxious to the college as it is
today, and it is just this ill-feeling that shuts the pockets of
nonmembers. Never before has it shown such arrogance and self-
fancied superiority. It grasps the College Press and endeavors to
rule in all. It does not deign to show its credentials, but clutches
at power with the silence of conscious guilt."
APPENDIX TO MEMORANDUM NUMBER ONE:
THE ORDER IN THE YALE FACULTY
Member Date Initiated Position at Yale
BEEBE, William 1873 Professor of Mathematics (1882-1917)
BEERS, Henry A. 1869 Professor of English Literature(1874-1926)
BELLINGER, Alfred R. 1917 Professor of Greek (1926-
DAHL, George 1908 Professor Yale Divinity School (1914-1929
DARLING, Arthur B. 1916 Professor of History (1925-1933)
DAY, Clive 1892 Professor of Economic History (1902-1938
DEXTER, Franklin B. 1861 Secretary, Yale University (1869-99)
DWIGHT. Timothy 1849 President of Yale University (1886-98)
FARNAM, Henry 1874 Professor of Economics (1880-1933)
FARNAM. William 1866 TrsteeSheffieldSchool(1894-1923)
FRENCH. Robert D. 1910 Professor of English (1919-1950)
GILMAN, Daniel C. 1852 See text.
GRAVES, Henry S. 1892 Dean, Yale School of Forestry (1900-1939)
GRUENER, G. 1884 Professor of German (1892-1928)
HADLEY, Arthur T. 1876 President of Yale (1899-1921)
HILLES, Frederick W. 1922 Professor of English (1931-
HOLDEN. Reuben A 1940 Assistant to President (1947-
HOPPIN. James M 1840 Professor of History of Art (1861-99)
INGERSOLL. James W. 1892 Professor of Latin (1897-1921)
JONES, Frederick S. 1884 Dean, Yale College (1909-1926)
LEWIS. Charlton M. 1886 Professor of English (1898-1923)
LOHMAN. Carl A. 1910 Secretary, Yale University (1927-
LYMAN, Chester 1837 Professor of Mechanics (1859-1890)
McLAUGHLIN. Edward T. 1883 Professor of English (1890-93)
NORTHROP, Cyrus 1857 Professor of English (1863-84)
PACKARD, Lewis R. 1856 Professor of Greek (1863-84)
PECK, Tracy 1861 Professor of Latin (1889-1908)
PERRIN. Bernadotte 1869 Professor of Greek (1893-1909)
PIERCE, Frederick E. 1904 Professor of English (1910-35)
ROOT. Reginald D. 1926 Yale football coach (1933-48)
SCHWAB, John C. 1886 Professor of Political Economy (1893-1906)
SEYMOUR, Charles 1908 Professor of History (1915-37)
President (1936-1950)
SEYMOUR. Charles Jr. 1935 Professor of Art (1949-
SILLIMAN, Benjamin Jr. 1837 Professor of Chemistry (1846-85)
STOKES, Anson P. 1896 Secretary of Yale (1899-1921)
SUMNER, William G. 1863 Professor of Economics (1872-1909)
TAFT, William H. 1878 Professor of Law (1913)
TARBELL, Frank B. 1873 Professor of Greek (1882-87)
THACHER, Thomas A. 1835 Professor of Latin (1842-86)
THOMPSON, John R. 1938 Professor of Law (1949-
WALKER, Charles R. 1916 Assistant Secretary (1943-45)
WOOLSEY, Theodore S. 1872 Professor of International Law (1878-1929)
WRIGHT, Henry B. 1898 Professor of History (1907-11)
WRIGHT, Henry P. 1868 Professor 0f Latin (1571-1918)
Dean, Yale College(1884-1909)
pps.61-70
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