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The '''Scroll and Key Society''' is a [[Collegiate secret societies in North America|secret society]], founded in 1842 at [[Yale University]], in [[New Haven, Connecticut]].
==History==
Scroll and Key was established by [[John Addison Porter]], with aid from several members of the Class of 1842 (including [[Leonard Case Jr.]] and [[Theodore Runyon]]) and a member of the Class of 1843 (William L. Kingsley), after disputes over elections to [[Skull and Bones Society]]. Kingsley is the namesake of the alumni organization, the Kingsley Trust Association (KTA), incorporated years after its founding.
[[File:Scroll and Key 1866 delegation Yale College.jpg|thumb
Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."<ref>''Four years at Yale''. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, C.C. Chatfield & Co, 1871. p. 158.</ref>
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== Architecture ==
[[File:Secret Society Buildings New Haven.jpg|thumb|Building, pre-expansion building (bottom) ]] [[File:Old Scroll and Key.jpg|thumb|right|Building during its expansion, 1901]]
The society's "building" was designed in the [[Moorish Revival]] style by [[Richard Morris Hunt]] and constructed in 1870.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://conserve-art.com/scroll-and-key-tomb/|title = Scroll and Key Tomb|date = June 8, 2013}}</ref>
Regarding its distinctive appearance, Pinnell noted that "19th-century artists' studios commonly had exotic orientalia lying about to suggest that the painter was sophisticated, well traveled, and in touch with mysterious powers; Hunt's Scroll and Key is one instance in which the trope got turned into a building."<ref name="Pinnell1">{{cite book|last=Pinnell|first=Patrick|title=The Campus Guide: Yale University|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|year=1999|pages=125|isbn=978-1-56898-167-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alnup81pmkAC&q=patrick+pinnell+yale+anthony&pg=PA123|access-date=2008-11-10}}</ref> Later, undergraduates described the building as a "striped zebra Billiard Hall" in a supplement to a Yale yearbook.<ref>Andrews, John.''History of the Founding of [[Wolf's Head (secret society)|Wolf's Head]]'',pg. 56, Lancaster Press, 1934</ref> More recently, it has been described by an undergraduate publication as being "the nicest building in all of New Haven
== Membership ==
Scroll and Key taps annually a delegation of
[[Mark Twain]] is an honorary member, under the auspices of [[Joseph Twichell]], Yale College Class of 1859.<ref>Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2, 1867–1868, [[University of California Press]], editors Harriet E. Smith, Richard Bucci and Lin Salamo, pg. 281</ref>
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|<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Taliaferro |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxF1DwAAQBAJ&q=grinnell+scroll+and+key&pg=PT64 |title=Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West |date=2019-06-04 |publisher=Liveright |isbn=978-1-63149-014-9}}</ref>
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