Secret Society
A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their activities and memberships but maintain a public presence. The exact qualifications for labeling a group as a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, denial of membership in or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or rituals which solidify members of the group.
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... campuses in the United States have been considered secret societies ... Perhaps one of the most famous secret college societies is Skull and Bones at Yale ... of Georgia has a similar, highly secretive society called Gridiron Secret Society ...
... La Santa is a secret society within the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organisation in Calabria (Italy) ... Security concerns led to the creation of a secret society within the secret society ... Finally, the current highest rank of associazione (society) was established – reserved for the supreme bosses of the 'Ndrangheta ...
... Elmo was the third senior society (after Berzelius, 1848 and Book and Snake, 1863) at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale's sciences and engineering college ... at Yale Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Wolf's Head (secret society), Book and Snake, Elihu (secret society), Berzelius, and Mace and Chain ... The Society’s original Club House, at 111 Grove Street, was built in 1895 ...
... Secret Society is an American hip-hop group from Brooklyn, New York ... but its members had previously collaborated on numerous occasions prior to Secret Society's formation ... Previously, all five members of Secret Society had been notable contributors in the underground rap scene ...
... the archives of the Order of Gimghoul, a secret society headquartered at the Gimghoul Castle ... The society is open to "notable" male students (rising juniors and higher), and faculty members by invitation ... The society centers itself around the legend of Peter Dromgoole, a student who mysteriously disappeared from the UNC campus in 1833 ...
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