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Students hold the Key of Phi Beta Kappa at Duke University. The symbol of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is a golden key engraved on the obverse with the image of a pointing finger, three stars, and the Greek letters from which the society takes its name. On the reverse are found the initials "SP" in the script.
"The American Scholar" was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College at the First Parish in Cambridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work Nature , published a year earlier, in which he established a new way for America's ...
He was awarded merit scholarships after his father died, and was the first man of color to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key at Harvard. He earned a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in 1895 and a Masters in 1896, working a variety of odd jobs to help pay his tuition. [15]
Emerson was accepted into the Harvard Divinity School in late 1824, [32] and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1828. [33] Emerson's brother Edward, [34] two years younger than he, entered the office of the lawyer Daniel Webster, after graduating from Harvard first in his class. Edward's physical health began to deteriorate, and he soon ...
A Time for Censorship, a Time for Freedom [permanent dead link ] – Americans' freedom of speech within the internet and how it is being put in jeopardy.(Webpage removed) First Amendment Library entry on Freedom of Expression (links to all of the Supreme Court's free expression cases)(webpage removed)
Representatives of Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi attended its preliminary meeting held on October 2, 1925. When ACHS was officially established on December 30, 1925, its founding members were Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi. [2]
At Phi Beta Kappa, he focused on advocacy for the arts, humanities and sciences, championing free expression, free inquiry and academic freedom, and invigorating the Society's 290 chapters and nearly 50 alumni associations. He has testified before Congress on free speech on campus and has led Phi Beta Kappa's historic commitment to support for ...
Franklin was elected as a foundation member of Fisk's new chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1953, when Fisk became the first historically black college to have a chapter of the honor society. [19] In 1973–1976, he served as President of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. [9]