Word: phi
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...celebration of the one hundred forty-ninth anniversary of the founding of the Phi Beta Kappa, the United Chapters and Alumni Associations throughout the United States will hold meetings or dinners on December...
This anniversary is looked forward to as a particularly momentous occasion, because it constitutes a reunion of the members of Phi Beta Kappa to make plans for the sesquicentennial next year. Important features of the progress of many of these gatherings will be addresses reviewing the history of the fraternity and reports of the progress made in raising the one hundred fiftieth Anniversary Endowment Fund, the most significant project initiated by the United Chapters in recent years...
...Endowment Fund, which it is hoped may be raised by the date of the sesquicentennial, was proposed with three objects in view: the erection of a Phi Beta Kappa building at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va., as a memorial to the fifty founders of the fraternity: the financing of a program for promoting a more widespread recognition of the value of high scholarship among university, college, and high school students; and the support of the regular activities of the fraternity. The goal of the fund is $1,000,000 equivalent to a contribution of $25 by every member...
...Phi Beta Kappa was the progenitor of all Greek-letter college fraternities although, unlike its successors, it based its membership solely upon scholarship. It is older than the Constitution of the United States, having been founded on December 5, 1776. The idea of an organization which should weld men of scholastic attainment together in fraternity was conceived by John Heath, a student at William and Mary College, who formed the nucleus of Phi Beta Kappa with four fellow-students. The strength of their conviction as to the need of such a fraternity for "attaining the important ends of Society...
...fraternity's representation from Virginia in the Convention of 1788 was large enough to determine the issue for ratification, and John Marshall, leader of the ratification forces in opposition to the eloquent Patrick Henry, was a Phi Beta Kappa man. Two of the original fifty became members of the Continental Congress, one going on from that body into the First Congress of the United States, to which John Heath also was later elected...