Word: establishmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...venerable Phi Beta Kappa, was established at William and May, Dec. 5, 1776. There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct, as is now the college itself. Twenty-two chapters now exist, being, in the order of the establishmen, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Union, Bowdoin, Brown, Trinity, Weslyan, Adelbert, Vermont, Amherst, University City of New York, Kenyon, Williams, College City of New York, Middlebury, Coumbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Cornell. Long before 1825, however, when the earliest of the modern societies was founded, Phi Beta Kappa had ceased...
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