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Number [a] Chapter Charter date and range Institution Location Status Reference 1: Alpha of Virginia: December 5, 1776 –1780, 1851–1860, 1893: College of William & Mary ...
Richard Sumner, the main character of the movie Desk Set (1957), is mentioned as a member when Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) reels off Sumner's character's accomplishments and says that he's a graduate of M.I.T. with a Ph.D. in Science and a Phi Beta Kappa, although he doesn't wear his key, which means either that he's modest or he lost it.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society publishes The Key Reporter, [22] a newsletter distributed quarterly to all contributing members and biannually to all other members, and The American Scholar, a quarterly subscription-based journal that accepts essays on literature, history, science, public affairs, and culture.
Beta Alpha: 1937–1939 Coe College: Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Inactive Beta Beta: 1937 Moravian College: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Inactive Beta Gamma: 19xx ? Inactive Beta Delta: 19xx ? Inactive Beta Epsilon: 1940 Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development: Nashville, Tennessee: Inactive Beta Zeta: 1948 Point Loma Nazarene ...
In the United States, the oldest academic society, Phi Beta Kappa, was founded as a social and literary fraternity in 1776. Other honor societies were established a century later, including Tau Beta Pi for engineering (1885), Sigma Xi for scientific research (1886), and Phi Kappa Phi for all disciplines (1897).
Phi Beta Kappa, the first honor society, locally founded at MIT in 1971, has used Pink and Sky blue since its national founding in 1776. Hence, students tapped for ΦΒΚ may wear tassels or other society-approved items, in these colors.
The Wily Goat, a monograph developed in 1877 and used by Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. [1] [2]This article includes Cornell University's fraternities and sororities. The Cornell University Greek system dates to the first months of university operation during the autumn of 1868.
Founded on November 14, 1998, Closed due to low membership; Zeta Beta Tau (ΖΒΤ), 1962-2010. Closed due to low membership; Phi Epsilon Pi (ΦΕΠ) 1961-1970. The Beta Delta chapter of Phi Epsilon Pi merged into Zeta Beta Tau in 1970, along with Phi Sigma Delta. The founding date is assumed to be 1961 because of the merger of Kappa Nu into Phi ...