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The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) [a] is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. [2] [3] It was founded at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, in December 1776. [4]
In the following list of Phi Beta Kappa chapters, ... Williams College: Williamstown, MA: Active [8] 18: Gamma of New York: July 24, 1867: City College of New York:
The F.H.C. Society, founded in 1750, was the first collegiate fraternity in the United States, and W&M students founded the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society in 1776, the first Greek-letter fraternity. It is the only American university issued a coat of arms by the College of Arms in London. [14]
Lawrence graduated from Williams College Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1977, winning the William Bradford Turner Prize, the college's highest honor, and then graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal in 1980. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. [3]
The College of William & Mary fraternities and sororities include chapters of national organizations belonging to the Panhellenic Council, the Interfraternity Council (IFC) and the National Pan-Hellenic Council, and also recognizes one local fraternity without Greek letters (Queens' Guard) and the local chapter of one national fraternity (Kappa Sigma) that abandoned membership in an inter ...
Beta Prime: 1848–1865 ... Williams College: Williamstown: MA Inactive [3] ... Phi Kappa: 1968–1991, 2008 Colorado State University: Fort Collins: CO
The Phi Beta Kappa society had a rudimentary initiation and maintained an uncertain level of secrecy. Those secrets were exposed in the mid-1830s by students at Harvard University acting under the patronage of John Quincy Adams. Since the 1840s, Phi Beta Kappa has operated openly as an academic honor society.