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The society has been reputed to tap the gregarious "[[university preparatory|prep school]] type".<ref name="yale56.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.yale56.org/Comment%2056/inside_eli.htm |title=Inside Eli, or How to Get On at Yale|publisher=Yale56.org|date=1955–56|accessdate=2011-08-01}}</ref><ref>''Secrets of the Tomb''. p. 69.</ref> Past members were associated intimately with the: [[Sam Chauncey|coeducation of Yale College]],<ref>, "The Guardians". p. 64</ref> [[Edward Harkness|establishment of the Yale residential college system and the Harvard house system]],<ref>{{cite journal |author2=Yale Alumni Publications, Inc.|url=http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_05/old_yale.html|date=May–June 2008 |title=How the Colleges Were Born |author1=Judith Ann Schiff|magazine=[[Yale Alumni Magazine]]: Old Yale |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522125640/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_05/old_yale.html |archivedate=2008-05-22 |accessdate=2013-10-09}}</ref> [[Alexander Smith Cochran|founding of the Elizabethan Club]],<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20614FD395517738DDDA90A94D9415B818DF1D3 "Real Shakespeare Treasures For Yale"] (PDF). ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 20, 1911.</ref> and [[A. Whitney Griswold|founding of the Yale Political Union]].<ref>''The Guardians''. p. 51.</ref> This was Yale's last all-male society; it washas tapped women since the spring of 1992.<ref>[http://www.deseretnews.com/article/199795/YALE-WOLFS-HEAD-ADMITS-WOMEN.html "Yale Wolf's Head Admits Women"]. ''[[Deseret News]]'', December 19, 1991.</ref>