yale is sufficiently elevated that merely going there constitutes a sort of society life in itself , but although 90 % of its graduates would be cut out of the action ( secretly at least a hundred every year plotted to write a novel about life at yale ; its harder than it looks isnt it ) , by this simple act of strategy tusk was pulled into the action , he got invited to all the secret clubs , and then he got to go to abingdon/whitney for a year .