Phi Beta Kappa. Beta of North Carolina Chapter (Duke University) Records, 1913-1996

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Phi Beta Kappa. Beta of North Carolina Chapter (Duke University) Records, 1913-1996

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uapbk/

Beta of North Carolina, the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Duke University, was founded at Trinity College in March, 1920, after ten years of effort by the President and Dean of the College to secure a charter. The collection includes minute books, correspondence, the original charter, manuals, handbooks, reports, and other related materials. Dates range from 1913-1996.

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University Archives, Duke University.

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Phi Beta Kappa. Beta Chapter of North Carolina (Duke University).

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Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on Dec. 5, 1776, by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. It was the first society to have a Greek letter name, and in its early years, it introduced the essential characteristics of such societies: an oath of secrecy (discarded in 1831), a badge, mottoes in Latin and Greek, a code of laws, and an elaborate initiation ritual. The members held regular meetings, generall...