Phi Kappa Phi

Phi Kappa Phi was "established to provide an honor society dedicated to the Unity and Democracy of Education, and open to honor students from all departments of American universities and colleges. Its prime object is to emphasize scholarship and character in the thought of college students, to foster the significant purposes for which institutions of higher learning have been founded, and to stimulate mental achievement by recognition through election to membership." Marcus I. Urann, a student in the University of Maine class of 1897, proposed the society in 1897. It was originally called Lambda Sigma Eta. The name was changed in 1899 to the Morrill Society (in honor of Sen. Justin S. Morrill, author of the Morrill Act of 1862). In 1900 the society was renamed Phi Kappa Phi and was formally established, with chapters in Maine, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. The first convention was held in New Haven in 1900. The society has grown ever since.

From the description of Records 1897- (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 53920171

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