Phi Beta Kappa
the oldest of the American college Greek-letter societies.
It takes its name from the initial letters of its motto, said to be Philosophia Biou Kubernetes, "Philosophy is the guide of life." It was founded in 1776 in the old "Raleigh Tavern" at Williamsburgh, Va., by forty-four undergraduates of William and Mary College, of whom PHELPS, AUSTIN, an American clergyman and author, born in West Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1820. He was pastor of the Pine Street Congregational Church, Boston, in 1842-1848; and Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary, in 1848-1879. John Marshall He was noted as an original writer and were Harbor, an eloquent preacher. His works include: "The Still Hour" (1859); "The New Birth" (1867); "Men and Books" (1882); "English Style in Public Discourse" (1883). He died in Bar Ha Me., Oct. 13, 1890.
PHELPS, EDWARD JOHN, an American diplomatist; born in Middlebury, Vt., July 11, 1822; was graduated at Middlebury College in 1840; Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1843; and settled in Burlington in 1845.
In 1851 he was appointed Comptroller of the Treasury. În 1881-1885 he was Professor of Law in the Yale Law School and also lecturer on constitutional law in Boston University. He was minister to 40; studied at the Yale was one.
Branches established at Yale in 1780 At_Harvard there is an annual uates." agreeable bond of meeting among gradand at Harvard in 1781, and to-day there are nearly a score in the principal colleges and universities of the Union.
The Phi Beta Kappa is now simply "an Phi Beta Kappa dinner, oration, and poem; the earliest and one of the most Wendell Holmes (1829). The badge of among the early poets were R. T. Paine ("The Ruling Passion") and Oliver Wendell Holmes (1829). The badge of the society is a golden watch key with striking of Edward Everett's great orations was delivered before the society, among the early poets were R. T. Paine ("The Ruling Passion") and Oliver Wendell the society is a golden watch key with the initials BK. Admission to mem- 1843; and settled in Burlington in 1845. In 1851 he was appointed Comptroller ters.
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