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...Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its winter banquet in the Faculty Room of the Union tonight. The banquet itself is scheduled for 7 o'clock, and following it, will take place the presentation of the keys and scrolls to the newly elected members of the society...
...POOR NUT-College boys in their own environment, making Phi Beta Kappa and winning track meets; improbable but entertaining...
William Short, second president of Phi Beta Kappa, accompanied Jefferson to Paris as secretary, and when Jefferson returned to America to become Secretary of State under President Washington, Short remained in Paris as charge d'affairs, his commission being the first to be signed by George Washington as President. Later William Short represented the United States at The Hague and in Spain...
...successfully espoused the cause of ratification of the Constitution, been a member of the first Congress, represented the United States on a special mission to the Court of St. James and served for a time as Secretary of State in the cabinet of John Adams 1775, another Phi Beta Kappa man, Bushrod Washington, became a justice of the United States Supreme Court...
...William and Mary College, in early times, for only four years. When early in 1781, the Revolution brought the British Army to Virginia, and then to Williamsburg, the college was forced to close its doors for a time. Before leaving the town the six members of Phi Beta Kappa who still remained there sealed up the records and left them in the hands of the college steward, to be safeguarded by him "until the desirable event of the Society's resurrection...