| Show oldest 0 idest fraternity Is granted a charter ten presidents have been enrolled by IL it N new sw york tn in announcing the plan to calibrate fittingly the one me buti hundred deed fiftieth anniversary of its founding phi beta happa the college honor himor so an cl biety announces won that t ten presidents es identa of h st I 1 ehg united ared 8 states t b beginning g I 1 dag with j john a b A quincy adams adama were a ra members bem or of the organization the society has just has been granted I a charter fr from the no new york state board ot of regents regent more inore than years after a group of 0 men man founded it in days daya phi beta kappa la is the oldest of the greek I 1 letter t t ar college societies or fro fra tom tomitye itle and d la Is in tact fact the progenitor of the entire it college sya y teni tear so sol a a statement recently made public it was organized Led december 5 1776 1716 when the first meeting was waa held at the college of william and mary filary at wil 1 am rif V VH A few college 1 80 unties motle are older than phi beta kappa happa adiong c them whig and clio at princea a 1 but none mine of them sought bought to expand by the organization of 0 similar societies in other colleges phi beta ka kappa p in began to think of reaching out when n it was but little over two years old and at the celebration of 0 its third anniversary it granted a charter for a bra branch n eh at harvard and four our days inter at another iother for a branch at lale isle closed by british army tut just two wo years yeara later la terIn ln january jannary 1781 th the coming 0 of f the tha british army closed the follega and nd also the society a 8 activities at william and it mary not A I 1 how however nier until the members had sealed up their records which alch conclude with the assertion se artlan ot of a sure and certain hope that the fraternity will one do day rise fee to life everl everlasting and ad glory glary i b immortal man many of the early art frear members lr became men en of at distinction as legislators diplomats in at and ad judges two becoming unit sit ed states senators and two judges of the supreme court bahros wash angion a nephew ephs ot a president mahall mai who we was chief justice for nearly thirty five ff yeara year the branches tit at yale end and harvard farrard soon som come came to occupy important post poal ton tlona in these A marked fen fee ture lure of their activities was wab their card bemary gathering usually held during the college commencements theme theae at wide attention by reason tit if the distinguished audiences audiences that attended wit and the prominent men mea anfio he delivered orations mumin in june jons 14 general lafayette at tended the Dard anniversary nt at harvard and listened to an oration by edward I 1 fcc artt afterwards president of harvard H ard and later inter the orator at gettysburg when president lincoln delivered him bis famous add mae ha ninety nine chapter from those early daa phi beti beta E jappu opp be abs arons brown until dt th there one we are now 09 90 b inch or a chapters ili I 1 a M as they ey are called ailed in tt as mary ol of it the lead leading in g col co bass gex and or if the land nearly fifty yes yeara boft 9 A women batto batin begun be admitted to membership they could be accorded this privilege vIege lecause phi bet beta kappa had cone come to be b recognized as an honorary society satisfy ad alv only the highest grade III ata dents denta fro from the tha graduating classes classe its ita members continue to a occupy py po pa ot of prominence in every walk of at lite life ten tan of them have him been presidents pres identa of the I 1 U united A I 1 it states state beginning with john job A quency adams and including theodore roosevelt willi Wll liani howard taft codr wit allbon and ad aliff coal id gc forar tour fear pe per rew cent of all men and women w honored by tablets in the hall half of F fame me at new york am are am inc members rubera of phi sam beta kappa many religious political and so ao cial lenders leaders we are members and also a great company of authors author educators and distinguished scientists scientist the esteem in a which membership la Is held Is evidenced by the fact that in 1917 honorable arthur J S baffour and 12 9 graduates it fee of mail and cambridge who ume members or at the british com mission sent to arrange for the pation ot of the united states in the florid war gladly accepted member ship AU all four of the delegates selected by president hording hunding to represent the tha united states in the international cor con ference ferance for tile the limitation of wern armament mead w were wa a members of ailt phi beta kappa to CIe celebrate wat december 5 1928 1926 i bring being the oldest college society in 1 the united states and having had much a distinguished career membership Is count counted c 6 a great grant honor and many colleges I 1 ere am eager to secure chapt chapters A are now mv f found d I 1 in every cry sec tion a of the flie united states plans place 1 are I now me forming to in ese celebrate brate this the one me hundred fiftieth anniversary which will occur Dece december ralser k B 1920 in da an especially worthy maimer A food fond 1 Is he being as collected to build a b bu tiding at the college ot of william and mary enry and to provide a an endowment to enlarge the society a activities 1 in all bom abating scholarly ideal ideala and effman it IS expected that the new catalogue catalog will be or of great assistance in the conduct of the an a prom froan it we learn that Z there them are am SO members be 1 in central and it I 1 south america CO 50 in 1 africa 1 in E europe and ami in asia agin th the president if 0 the society is dr charles V F tor far 30 years denra viral preil dent or of western reserve university cleveland 0 among thi the members of 0 the tha are am fia clr college president including president Ri blame of ton ion and ad president L 11 or of harvard ha d albert show the editor ot of the review at ti review john H R finley w 0 the new york times derwin darwin p kingsley president of tb the NOW new Y york ork life anew aacen opey john job D R Bocke leller feler jr ond it the alie secretary setre tary of state cheri charles a B V bustled bustles haab Bust les |
