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Boston College: Chestnut Hill, MA: Active [94] [8 ... Guide to the University of Chicago Phi Beta Kappa Beta of Illinois Chapter Records 1899-1948 at the University ...
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.
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 ] Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and to induct outstanding students of arts and sciences at ...
Contents. Fraternities and sororities in Canada. The expansion of Greek letter organizations into Canada was an important stage of the North American fraternity movement, beginning in 1879 with the establishment of a chapter of Zeta Psi at the University of Toronto. In 1883, the same fraternity established a chapter at McGill University.
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]
Kappa Alpha's founders adopted many of Phi Beta Kappa's practices (Phi Beta Kappa had been established at Union College in 1817 [11]), but formed their organization around fellowship, making the development of friendship and brotherhood their primary purpose. Students liked the organization but the faculty was opposed to the small secret society.
Beta Kappa was formed at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota on October 15, 1901 with the name The Knights of Beta Omicron Sigma Kappa.Eventually, this somewhat unwieldy name was colloquially shortened to Beta Kappa (date?), maturing into a local fraternity that continued for twenty-one years before beginning a period of rapid expansion.
Home of Alpha Delta Phi's Lambda Phi chapter at MIT, 2017. Home of Sigma Chi's Alpha Theta chapter at MIT, in 2004. Home of "Number Six Club," Delta Psi's Tau chapter at MIT, in 2004. Home of Theta Chi's Beta chapter at MIT, in 2008. Home of Phi Sigma Kappa's Omicron chapter at MIT, circa 1940s.