The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-09
Cabell. Lee, Heath. F'itziugh. and other


Cabell, Lee, Heath, F'itzhush, and other
| Wcll-known names.
INTO THE NORTH.
It is an interesting fact to observe no"
the society became rooted III inc Noi,l''
whcro the organization is 50 strong to-
| day. One OF the original fifty members
| of Phi Beta Kappa was Elisha Parma
| lee, q Harvard graduate. who was dolhS
| post graduate work at William ana MARY
| When the chapter was temporarily suS-
! pended at William and Mary, Farmalee
| was granted permission TO estaollsfl 8
| chapter at Yale and also at Harvard
| This he. accordingly did; and few years
| later another chapter was placed at
Dartmouth. Before many years the
society was strongly intrenched III all OF
| the. best universities and colleges III the
| North. 49,.
There arc now fifty chapters OF Pm
| Beta Kappa in the United States. though
! ONLY two exist south OF the Mason anu
Dixon line, the one at Johns Hopkins
| University, in Baltimore, and the other
| at William and Mary. 1t is propnoic thl'I
ether chapters will gradually be intro
duced into the best southern UNIVERSE
! ties. Heretofore efforts to secure cts1f-
| tiers have been fruitless-
HONOR OF PHI BETA KAPPA
| It is generally considered an honor TO
be asked to join any college Greek-letter
| fraternity. In most of them social posi-
| ton is the paramount requisite Tor JONI
| ing But with Phi Beta Kappa the honor
| is; a double one-tlIe very first REQUISITES
| fer memberships are good moral cnstr-
| acter ard high scholarship. In New
England New York, and wherever the
! society is found. u Phi Beta Kappa key
| pendant upon the watch-chain is con-
| sidered one OF the highest honors
| literary man can have conferred upon
him.
| Membership preSupposes d hiSh scloi-
arship, and if conferred, as William and
Mary and certain other colleges confer
it, after graduation, it is equivalent 10
| an honorary. degree. At Columbia Yale,
| Brown, Cornell, and other colleges, the
! most brilliant graduates are elected
members of the society. William and
1 Mary in recent years has always elected
| men who have made some reputa.io'i %
| Iitterateurs. 1t has elected about elSht
~. fen of. its graduates in recent years.
/ All of the other members elected have
/ been men of more mature age, and. quite
| 8 number have been graduates OF other
colleges than William and Mary.
Some: OF tliessinitiates OF the Alpha
! Chapter l;lt=-Niliam and Mary III recent
/ wears have been DR. Thomas Nelson
Page, f-Washington; Armistead c. Cor
| don of Staunton; Professor James y.
| Harrison, of the University OF Virginia;
| Professor Henry a. White, OF L.eXing-
ton: Governor Francis L. Nichols, or
/ Louisiana: Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, OF
| Norfolk, and q number of the members
in this city.
THE PHI BETA KAPPA KEY.
/ The badge of Phi Beta Kappa is n
/ watch key of gold. On one side are the
j Greek letters Phi Beta Kappa and q
l Group.zo of seven stars, and on the other
/ side are the initials. S. f, of certain
Latin words, that in the early days gave
the name to the fraternity.
Before the society went North the
the same lettering as the modern gold
| key.
! A key of the regulation type may be
! found in the possession of each OF the
mem bers-of tho society IN Richmond and
| elsewhere.
1T is considered a great honor in the
| North to be Il wearer of such d key. as
men1bership in Phi Beta Kappa places
/ one in the ranks with the great men who
/ have made the literature OF America.
During the hundred and twenty-five
! years OF the Societys life many great
men have been initiated into Phi Beta
kappa Only Il small portion OF the ilst
can be mentioned, but the following VIII
! -iHustrats -what-it means to be a member
of the society, and shows how the order
/ has stood in the past and stands to-day
= William and .NIary-John Marshall.
/ Rusllrod Washington. MADISON, Lee.
George Mason. Fitzhush, Hardy, Cabeil,
Beckley, and Heath.
| Observation-Disclosures Roosevelt, John
! Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Oliver
Wendell Holmes James Russell Lowell,
/ John. ,Iottirop Motley, Edward Everett,
I Ralph Waldo Emerson, Phillips Brooks,
Horace H. Turner, John ID. Long, md
a host OF other intellectual giants.
! Yale-NIoses Colt Tyler, Thomas f.
Wentworth, William Strong, Noah Por-
ter, Daniel c. Gilman, and William NJ.
Observation-Disclosures Webster. Nelson
Dingley, Rufus choate, and salmon I. (.
VIII Williams cbllege-william Cullen
BRYANT, q James a. Garfield, William
Dwight Whitney, Samuel Chapman ARM
! strong.
BoWdoin coilege-Nat hsniel Ha wv
thorne, Henry w. Longfeliow, Franklin
t Pierce, Jacob Abbott, and John 2. Hale.
/ Princeton-WoodroW ltsoi. ana : saiiA-
Union college, Chester A. Arthur,
Horati Potter, and Austin Blair
i Hamilton college-Horatioss Seymour.
EIhu Root, and John Jay Knox.
Amherst ColIese-Rey. Charles III.
T "a +, RICHMOND MEMBERS.
Il Those members OF the society now
l I;,ine.Sin Richmond are fourteen in num-
her and with the addition OF the names
at Nfassrs Frank r Brent and Plum
4 mers Il. Jones. vii q ggregate sixteen.
i The list OF Richmond men is as follows:
4 Joseph Ervan. ~ irginius Newton, Id
i ward aIentinc, J ohm II Williams,
I fudge Beverly ford, DIR. Walton 81.
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