George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

In his 1939 memoirs, Headmaster Fuess expressed the philosophy which must guide the
education of the well-born young gentlemen under his care:
Our declining birth rate ... may perhaps indicate a step towards national deterioration.
Among the so-called upper and leisure classes, noticeably among the university group,
the present birth rate is strikingly low. Among the Slavonic and Latin immigrants, on the
other hand, it is relatively high. We seem thus to be letting the best blood thin out and
disappear; while at the same time our humanitarian efforts for the preservation of the less
fit, those who for some reason are crippled and incapacitated, are being greatly
stimulated. The effect on the race will not become apparent for some generations and
certainly cannot now be accurately predicted; but the phenomenon must be mentioned if
you are to have a true picture of what is going on in the United States.@s1@s7
Would George Bush adopt this anti-Christian outlook as his own? One can never know
for sure how a young person will respond to the doctrines of his elders, no matter how
cleverly presented. There is a much higher degree of certainty that he will conform to
criminal expectations, however, if the student is brought to practice cruelty against other
youngsters, and to degrade himself in order to get ahead. At Andover, this was where the
Secret Societies came in.
The Secret Societies
Nothing like Andover's secret societies existed at any other American school. What were
they all about?
Bush's friend Fitzhugh Greene wrote in 1989:
Robert L. `` Tim '' Ireland, Bush's longtime supporter [and Brown Brothers
Harriman partner], who later served on the Andover board of trustees with him,
said he believed [Bush] had been in AUV. `` What's that? I asked. ``Can't tell you,
'' laughed Ireland. `` It's secret! '' Both at Andover and Yale, such groups only
bring in a small percentage of the total enrollment in any class. `` That's a bit cruel
to those who don't make AU[V] or `Bones,' '' conceded Ireland.@s1@s8
A retired teacher, who was an adviser to one of the groups, cautiously disclosed in his
bicentennial history of Andover, some aspects of the secret societies. The reader should
keep in mind that this account was published by the school, to celebrate itself:
A charming account of the early days of K.O.A, the oldest of the Societies, was prepared
by Jack [i.e. Claude Moore] Fuess, a member of the organization, on the occasion of their
Fiftieth Anniversary. The Society was founded in ... 1874....
[A] major concern of the membership was the initiation ceremony. In K.O.A. the
ceremony involved visiting one of the local cemeteries at midnight, various kinds of
tortures, running the gauntlet--though the novice was apparently punched rather than
paddled, being baptized in a water tank, being hoisted in the air by a pulley, and finally