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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Phi Beta Kappa records, 1776-2006 (bulk 1900-2000)</title>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Phi Beta Kappa</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>554</extent>
    <extent>283</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, publications, printed matter, and other records relating to the functions of the organization.  Includes material pertaining to the evaluation of institutions applying for local chapters and book awards granted annually by Phi Beta Kappa.  Subjects include the American Scholar, the Key Reporter, liberal arts studies, collegiate athletics, history of Phi Beta Kappa, and role of honor societies in education.  Individuals represented include Carl Billman, Christian Frederick Gauss, Edwin A. Grosvenor, William T. Hastings, Benno Lewinson, Marjorie Hope Nicholson, Clark Sutherland Northrup, William A. Shimer, Charles Franklin Thwing, and Oscar M. Voorhees.  Includes correspondence with organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Humanities Faculty.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Collegiate scholastic honor society founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006026">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006026</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Billman, Carl</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gauss, Christian Frederick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1951</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grosvenor, Edwin A. (Edwin Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1936</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hastings, William T. (William Thomson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1969</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lewinson, Benno</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicholson, Marjorie Hope</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Northrup, Clark Sutherland</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1952</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shimer, William A. (William Allison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thwing, Charles Franklin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1937</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Voorhees, Oscar M. (Oscar McMurtrie)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1947</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Association for the Advancement of Science.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Humanities Faculty.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>College sports</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Education, Humanistic</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Learned institutions and societies</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Literary prizes</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Universities and colleges</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <title>American scholar</title>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Key reporter</title>
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  <identifier type="hdl">hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms006026</identifier>
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  <location>
    <url displayLabel="Archived Web site : Official Web site of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/mrva0012.0026/</url>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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