Download or read book Catalogue of the Vanderbilt Chapter written by Vanderbilt University and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Vanderbilt Chapter: Phi Beta Kappa The society was founded ia the very birth hour of our republic, and every Phi Beta Kappa key still bears the date, December 5. 1776, in memory of that day. A stu dent, says Hon. William Short, who proved himself the best Hellenist in the college probably devised the Greek motto, which in after years was destined to become syn onymous with scholastic distinction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.