Spade and Grave

Spade and Grave (S&G), also called S.L.M., is a senior secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

[4] Instead of accepting this ruling, the Bonesmen printed their own version of the February issue, resulting in two competing magazines from two editorial boards.

[4] The new group's badge debuted in the summer of 1864 and its insignia mocked the Bonesmen with a gravedigger tossing a skull with his spade.

[4][3] In addition to billiard tables, Space and Grave had a room that was completely covered in black velvet.

[4] Nevertheless, it eventually had financial problems, and a Yale historian notes that the group "was always despised and looked down upon" because of its controversial start.

[4] The October 10, 1868 issue of The College Courant questioned whether this truly was a new senior society or "a posthumous offspring of the defunct Spade and Grave".

[8] The publication's editors noted:We are told, on the one hand, that this new society occupies the hall of the old one, which induces us to believe that they are one and the same thing.

On the other hand, the new pin, although it retains a portion of the old design, would seem to indicate that this young institution is not responsible for the debts of its bankrupt predecessor.