Editing Scroll and Key (section)

== Membership ==
Scroll and Key taps annually a delegation of fifteen, composed of men and women of the junior class, to serve the following year. Membership is offered to a diverse group of highly accomplished juniors, specifically those who have "achieved in any field, academic, extra-curricular, or personal".<ref>[http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/document.php?CISOROOT=/yale-ydn&CISOPTR=16213&REC=7 Yale University Library Digital Collections: Compound Object Viewer<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430150719/http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fyale-ydn&CISOPTR=16213&REC=7|date=2011-04-30}}</ref> Delegations frequently include editors of the ''[[Yale Daily News]]'' and other publications, artists and musicians, social and political activists, athletes of distinction, entrepreneurs, and high-achieving scholars.<ref>http://www.ivygateblog.com/?s=scroll+and+key, see membership lists</ref><ref>A cross-reference with recent members (available on IvyGateBlog.com and in print issues of the Yale Rumpus) and scholarship winners will indicate the high number of Scroll and Key members</ref>

[[Mark Twain]] was 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>