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BOX III:RC 24-30 Part III: Publications, 1826-2006
Material related to publications of both the national organization and chapters, including bulletins, constitutions and bylaws, handbooks, pamphlets, periodicals, and speeches.
Organized as received.
BOX III:RC 24 Associates' booklets, 1940-1987, 1993
(6 folders)
Chapter publications
Chapter Bulletin, United Chapters, 1933
By state
California-Connecticut, 1904-1918
(2 folders)
Georgia-Illinois, 1909, 1915-1920, 1929-1930
Kansas-Louisiana, 1903, 1912, 1925, 1933
Maine-Maryland, 1901-1908, 1917
Massachusetts, 1902-1910, 1916
BOX III:RC 25 Minnesota-Missouri, 1906-1909, 1918, 1939
New Jersey-New York, 1887-1891, 1903-1922, 1929-1936
(3 folders)
Ohio, 1899, 1908, 1914-1917
Pennsylvania, 1902-1904, 1911-1919, 1933-1939
Rhode Island-Texas, 1904-1906, 1914-1920
Vermont-Wisconsin, 1904-1923
BOX III:RC 26 Constitutions and bylaws, 1952, 1970-1988, 1995-2000
Delegate's manuals, 1934-1940, 1946, 1955-1961, 1970-2003
(9 folders)
Handbooks
Handbook and General Address Catalogue of the United Chapters, 1900
A Handbook for New Members
1925-1973, 1982-1988
(4 folders)
BOX III:RC 27 1991-2006
The Key Reporter, 1936-1988, 2001-2002
(5 folders)
Miscellany
About Phi Beta Kappa, The Flat Hat Club, 1916
By Phi Beta Kappa
Miscellaneous small pamphlets, 1853-1933
Chronological file, 1897, 1903-1910, 1919, 1925-circa 1928, 1934 1939, 1946, 1953-1965, 1977-1983, 1995-1998 Publications include:
(5 folders)
Phi Beta Kappa Officers, Constitution, Minutes, Etc., United Chapters, 1897
Phi Beta Kappa Publications, New Series: Bulletin of Information, 1903, 1907, 1908, 1910
Phi Beta Kappa Publications, New Series: Chapter Activities, 1906
Phi Beta Kappa Publications, New Series: Past and Present,by Oscar M.Voorhees, 1908
Phi Beta Kappa Souvenir, 1910
The Original Phi Beta Kappa Records, 1919
Phi Beta Kappa at its One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, 1776-1926, 1925
Noblesse Oblige, 1926
A Ritual of Phi Beta Kappa, circa 1928
Phi Beta Kappa Annals, 1934
"The Search for Values by Phi Beta Kappa," by David Robertson, Bulletin of the Association of American Colleges, 1934
Facts Not Widely Known, 1937
Phi Beta Kappa Defense Fund, 1939
Miscellaneous small pamphlets, 1853-1933
Chronological file, 1897, 1903-1910, 1919, 1925-circa 1928, 1934 1939, 1946, 1953-1965, 1977-1983, 1995-1998 Publications include:
(5 folders)
"Colonel William Lamb and Phi Beta Kappa," by Oscar M. Voorhees, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1946
The Founding of New Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1946
The American Scholar in 1953, 1953
Form of Initiation, 1956
Manual for Chapter Officers, 1959
Insignia of Phi Beta Kappa, 1963
Phi Beta Kappa as a Secret Society, by William T. Hastings, 1965
Manual for Chapter Officers, 1977
Phi Beta Kappa Associates: By-Laws, 1978
United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
Phi Beta Kappa Associates Members in the Community, 1995
"'Only Connect. . . ,'" by William Cronon, American Scholar, 1998
Phi Beta Kappa Bulletin, 1939-1940, 1959-1968, 1974-2000
(4 folders)
BOX III:RC 28 Phi Beta Kappa Key
Unbound copies, 1910-1922, 1926-1931
(8 folders)
Bound volumes, 1910-1931
(7 vols.)
Speeches and orations, 1826, 1837, 1876-1877, 1900, 1912-1913, 1925,1951, 1957, 1976 Speeches include:
"Story's Discourse," by Joseph Story, 1826
"Oration," by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837
"Andrew Todd McClintock," by George B. Kulp, 1876
"Unwritten Law," by Thomas Francis Bayard, 1877
"President Eliot and Jesuit College," 1900
"Address before New York Iota," 1912
"Addresses," Phi Beta Kappa Massachusetts Beta, 1913
"Report of the Committee on Chapter Policy," 1925
"An Example to Emulate," 1951
"Dedication of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall," 1957
"Remarks by the Honorable David Mathews," 1976
"Remarks by Dr. Daniel Boorstin," 1976
BOX III:RC 29 Dissertations
Mondale, Clarence C., "Phi Beta Kappa Orations, 1788-1865," 1960
Wagner, Marta, "American Scholar in the Early National Period," 1983
History of Phi Beta Kappa, by Oscar M. Voorhees
Drafts, circa 1930
(8 vols.)
BOX III:RC 30 (1 vol.)
Chapter records prepared for Voorhees
Dartmouth
(2 vols.)
Harvard
Union
(2 vols.)
Yale
Letters prepared for Voorhees
BOX III:RC 31-33 Part III: Awards, 1960-2002
Correspondence, vote tallies, publicity, committee files pertaining to Phi Beta Kappa awards.
Arranged alphabetically by award, then chronologically, by material type, or by recipient. Organized as received.
BOX III:RC 31 Potential awards, 1978
Book awards, correspondence, 1994-2002
(5 folders)
Distinguished Service to Humanities Award, 1969-1989
(4 folders)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award
Correspondence, 1998-2001
(6 folders)
Press, 1999-2001
(4 folders)
BOX III:RC 32 Christian Gauss Book Award, correspondence, 1997-2002
(8 folders)
Science Book Award
Committee, deliberations, and correspondence, 1998-2002
(4 folders)
Press, 1999-2001
(3 folders)
Reports, 1996-1998
Mary I. Sibley Fellowship
Correspondence
Committee, 1967-1982
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