Cap and Skull is a co-educational senior honor society at Rutgers University in New Jersey. It was founded on January 18, 1900. Admission to Cap and Skull is dependent on excellence in academics, athletics, the arts, and public service. The organization considers leadership and character as factors for membership. Eighteen members are selected each year.
History
On January 18, 1900, ten members of the senior class of Rutgers College met in the Chi Psi lodge to form Cap and Skull. Drawing inspiration from Skull and Bones and Quill and Dagger, Yale and Cornell's senior class honor societies, Cap and Skull aimed to form a similar honor society at Rutgers.
Symbols
The motto of Cap and Skull is Spectemur agendo or "Let us be judged by our actions". Its pillars are Spirit, History, and Tradition.
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|Al Aronowitz
|1959
|Writer and friend of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Amiri Baraka, and George Harrison
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|Jay M. Bernhardt
|1991
|President of Emerson College
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|William B. Brahms
|1989
|Librarian, encyclopedist, author, and historian
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|Alfred Ellet Hitchner
|1904
|Football player and coach,
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|Robert E. Kelley
|1956
|Youngest lieutenant general in US Air Force history; superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy
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|Robert E. Lloyd
|1967
|Professional basketball player with the New York Nets
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|Anne Milgram
|1992
|Attorney general of New Jersey
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|Rebecca Quick
|1993
|Anchor for CNBC Squawk Box
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|Dick Standish
|1964
|Anchor and reporter on television and radio at KYW-TV in Philadelphia
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