Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Beta Kappa ass eng US-amerikanesch akadeemesch Vereenegung, déi am Joer 1776 am College of William and Mary zu Williamsburg a Virginia gegrënnt gouf. Si gëllt als déi eelst a renoméierst Honor Society resp. Studentevereenegung an den USA. D'Opnam gëtt vun der Phi-Beta-Kappa-Gesellschaft vun der jeeweileger Héichschoul gereegelt. An der Reegel ginn net méi wéi 10 Prozent vun de College-Studenten (virun der Graduéierung, als „Undergraduates“) opgeholl. Dem betreffende Student gëtt eng Memberschaft ugebueden, déi hien akzeptéiere kann oder och net. An de vergaangene Joren (2006), huet nëmmen nach een Drëttel vun den Chapters d'Memberschaft ugeholl. No der Graduéierung steet et de Membere fräi, enger lokaler Phi-Beta-Kappa-Gesellschaft bäizetrieden. Phi Beta Kappa huet am Moment eng 500.000 Memberen.

Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) steet fir déi griichesch Wierder Φιλοσοφια Βιου Κυβερνητης (Philosophia biu kybernetes -- „Léift vun der Wäisheet, Läitlinn vum Liewen“.

Symbol ass e gëllene Schlëssel, op deem vir dräi Stären (si sti fir Frëndschaft, Moral, Léieren), eng Hand an d'Initiale ΦΒΚ stinn, op der Récksäit een SP (fir Societas philosophiae).

D'Gesellschaft gëtt véiermol am Joer d'Zäitschrëft The American Scholar mat meeschtens geeschteswëssenschaftlechen Artikelen eraus.

All Joer iwwerreecht d'Phi Beta Kappa de Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-Präis fir groussaarteg sozial- oder geeschteswëssenschaftlech Fachbuch-Publikatiounen.

 Berüümt Memberen (chronologesch) 
 Studenten 

 Bushrod Washington—William & Mary, 1778
 John Marshall—William & Mary, 1780
 James Kent—Yale, 1781
 John Quincy Adams—Harvard, 1787
 Eli Whitney—Yale, 1792
 Joseph Story—Harvard, 1798
 Daniel Webster—Dartmouth, 1801
 John C. Calhoun—Yale, 1804
 Samuel Morse—Yale, 1810
 Rufus Choate—Dartmouth, 1819
 Nathaniel Hawthorne—Bowdoin, 1824
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Bowdoin, 1825
 Chester A. Arthur—Union, 1848
 Oliver Wendell Holmes—Harvard, 1861
 Robert Peary—Bowdoin, 1877
 William Howard Taft—Yale, 1878
 John Dewey—Vermont, 1879
 Theodore Roosevelt—Harvard, 1880
 Charles Evans Hughes—Brown, 1881
 Charles McLean Andrews—Hartford 1884
 George Santayana—Harvard, 1886
 Bernard Baruch—CUNY, 1889
 W. E. B. Du Bois—Fisk, 1890	
 Bainbridge Colby—Williams, 1890
 Learned Hand—Harvard, 1893
 Alexander Meiklejohn—Brown, 1893
 Harlan Fiske Stone—Amherst, 1894
 Owen Roberts—Pennsylvania, 1895
 Felix Frankfurter—CUNY, 1902
 Elihu Root—Hamilton, 1903
 John Foster Dulles—Princeton, 1908
 Owen Brewster—Bowdoin, 1909
 Harold Hitz Burton—Bowdoin, 1909
 Walter Lippmann—Harvard, 1909
 Paul Howard Douglas—Bowdoin, 1913
 Pearl Buck—Randoph-Macon, 1914
 James Bryant Conant—Harvard, 1914
 Dean Acheson—Yale, 1915
 Archibald MacLeish—Yale, 1915
 Charles Hamilton Houston—Amherst, 1915
 Alfred Kinsey—Bowdoin, 1916
 Paul Robeson—Rutgers, 1919
 William O. Douglas—Whitman, 1920
 Herbert Brownell, Jr.—Nebraska, 1924
 Countee Cullen—N.Y. University, zirka 1926
 Alger Hiss—Johns Hopkins, 1926
 Harry Blackmun—Harvard, 1929 Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.—Washington & Lee, 1929
 Nelson A. Rockefeller—Dartmouth, 1930
 Clement Greenberg—New York, 1930
 Jonas Salk—CCNY, 1930
 Carl Albert—Oklahoma, 1931
 Dean Rusk—Davidson, 1931
 Daniel Boorstin—Harvard, 1934
 Richard Helms—Williams, 1935
 Ed Muskie—Bates, 1936
 Robert McNamara—Berkeley, 1937
 Potter Stewart—Yale, 1937
 Byron White—Colorado, 1937
 Caspar Weinberger—Harvard, 1938
 Ella T. Grasso—Mt. Holyoke, 1940
 John Paul Stevens—Chicago, 1941
 Betty Friedan—Smith, 1942
 Phyllis Schlafly—Washington U., 1943
 Peter Gay—Denver, 1946
 Tom Lehrer—Harvard, 1946
 Frank Church—Stanford, 1947
 Robert Bork—Chicago, 1948
 George H. W. Bush—Yale, 1948
 William Rehnquist—Stanford, 1948
 Brock Adams—Washington, 1949
 Edward O. Wilson—Alabama, 1949
 Henry Kissinger—Harvard, 1950
 Pat Robertson—Washington & Lee, 1950
 Susan Sontag—Chicago, 1951
 Stephen Sondheim—Williams, 1952
 John Shelby Spong—North Carolina, 1952
 Thomas R. Pickering—Bowdoin, 1953
 Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Cornell, 1954
 Dick Lugar—Denison, 1954
 Victor Navasky—Swarthmore, 1954
 John Updike—Harvard, 1954
 Ralph Nader—Princeton, 1955
 Gloria Steinem—Smith, 1956
 Elizabeth Dole—Duke, 1958
 Anthony Kennedy—Stanford, 1958
 Kris Kristofferson—Pomona, 1958
 Stephen Breyer—Stanford, 1959
 Francis Ford Coppola—Hofstra, 1959
 Bob Graham—Florida, 1959
 Robert Nozick—Columbia, 1959
 Richard Posner—Yale, 1959
 Robert E. Rubin—Harvard, 1960
 Fay Vincent—Williams, 1960 Pat Schroeder—Minnesota, 1961
 David Souter—Harvard, 1961
 Lamar Alexander—Vanderbilt, 1962
 Tom Brokaw—South Dakota, 1962
 Lynne Cheney—Colorado C., 1962
 Richard Epstein—Columbia, 1963
 David Satcher—Morehouse, 1963
 James Woolsey—Stanford, 1963
 David R. Knechtges—Washington, 1964
 Michael Crichton—Harvard, 1964
 Joseph Lieberman—Yale, 1964
 Angela Davis—Brandeis, 1965
 Paul Wellstone—North Carolina, 1965
 William Weld—Harvard, 1966
 Bill Clinton—Georgetown, 1968
 Laurie Anderson—Barnard 1969
 Hillary Clinton—Wellesley, 1969
 Jon Corzine—Illinois, 1969
 Frank Easterbrook—Swarthmore, 1970
 David M. Rubenstein—Duke, 1970
 Louis Freeh—Rutgers, 1971
 Nadine Strossen—Radcliffe, 1972
 Benazir Bhutto—Radcliffe, 1973
 Jeb Bush—Texas, 1973	
 Elijah Cummings—Howard, 1973
 E.J. Dionne—Harvard, 1973
 Condoleezza Rice—Denver, 1974
 Susan Collins—St. Lawrence, 1975
 Gale A. Norton—Denver, 1975
 Lawrence B. Lindsey—Bowdoin, 1976
 Jennifer Granholm—Berkeley, 1980
 Nicholas D. Kristof—Harvard, 1981
 George Stephanopoulos—Columbia, 1982	
 Miguel Estrada—Columbia, 1983
 Dinesh D'Souza—Dartmouth, 1983
 Daniel Pearl—Stanford, 1985
 Jeff Bezos—Princeton, 1986
 Paul Clement—Georgetown, 1988
 Ashley Judd—Kentucky, 1990
 Anne Dias-Griffin—Georgetown, 1993
 Stephanie Herseth—Georgetown, 1993
 Tristan Taormino—Wesleyan, 1993
 Jori Chisholm—Puget Sound, 1997
 Peyton Manning—Tennessee, 1997
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 Éierememberen 
 Martin Van Buren
 Franklin Pierce
 Rutherford B. Hayes
 James A. Garfield
 Grover Cleveland
 Alexander Graham Bell Mark Twain
 Woodrow Wilson
 Calvin Coolidge
 Franklin D. Roosevelt
 Harry S. Truman
 Dwight D. Eisenhower Jimmy Carter
 Isaac Asimov
 Leonard Bernstein
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Robert Frost
 Helen Keller Washington Irving
 Victor Lange
 Carl Sandburg
 William T. Sherman
 Booker T. Washington
 Henry Adams Henry James
 Murray Gell-Mann
 Louis Brandeis
 John D. Rockefeller
 Wolfgang Leonhard
 Literatur 
 Richard N. Current: Phi Beta Kappa in American life. The first 200 years. OUP, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-506311-2

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