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Phi Beta Kappa U.S.
|faɪ ˈbiːtə (or ˈbeɪtə| ˈkæpə)
[f. the initials of Gr. ϕιλοσοϕία βίου κυβερνήτης philosophy (the) guide of life.]
An honorary society to which distinguished undergraduate, and occas. graduate, scholars may be elected; a member of this society. Also attrib.
[1776in William & Mary College Q. (1896) Apr. 214 A list of Members who have been Initiated into the S.P. alias ϕβκ Society.] 1831N.Y. Mirror 3 Sept. 71/2 Chancellor Kent will deliver an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at the annual commencement of Yale College. 1894Harper's Mag. June 34/1 I've got to read the Phi Beta Kappa poem at Harvard next week. 1912M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. 278 Sylvia..just walked through everything and would be chosen for the Phi Beta Kappa. 1929Chicagoan 17 Aug. 21/3 Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa conventions. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August xix. 419 A Harvard graduate, a Phi Beta Kappa. 1949Newsweek 5 Dec. 54/2 Selby won a Phi Beta Kappa key at Northwestern. 1954W. Stevens Let. 29 Jan. (1967) 816, I am going to read a Phi Beta Kappa poem..at Columbia. 1968Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Feb. 1/1 Mr. Kahn, a Phi Beta Kappa member in his junior year. 1974‘I. Drummond’ Power of Bug x. 144 The other was collegiate too, but not an athlete, a Phi Beta Kappa. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 10 July 11/1 Phi Beta Kappa was founded as a secret society at the College of William and Mary on Dec. 5, 1776, and it featured, along with an oath of secrecy, mottoes in Latin and Greek, a code of laws, elaborate initiation rites, a badge, a seal, and a special handclasp. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. 23a/1, I notice you wearing your Phi Beta Kappa Key from Barnard. |