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The Founders Phi Beta Kappa that gave the Society its name, although of a contemporary admitted in later years, "Whether it be pure I would not now FIFTY NAMES ON A BRONZE TABLET say. At that time none of us supposed
that more pure could have been Virginia Waller Davis anything By formed in Athens, such was the opinion founder." of the great learning of our This blue-eyed son of a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses was presi * - / ' I 1 1 1 dent of the Alpha as long as he remained in college. He saw service in the Revolu tion, and on return to his native county was elected Commonwealth's Attorney, his first political post. His silver-tongued
' oratory and statesmanlike manner soon , ! ^ J. < Om . k ? %,Jl , an a u, ,^.C^j| 4e L& $ i ftp , x^ won him election to the Virginia House of Delegates, and next to the third and fourth sessions of the United States
fi Congress. He was serving in his last post i.,\.H< Y'feJk^ UVaoto^i- V)futtia. ,J,. of as a member ( Jo-lt-rv j JO* ^*,ricv> ^ *-* 4u. a*c*wv r^v^,-rcr'V.C^ Qtj (j ^U-tTtAr.' t Lt*sn-H^S*-riXyyt, .: V*>.CA^I^TU^JVhV"-*fifty-two. r The first man to conceive the idea of extending Phi Beta Kappa to colleges in other areas, as a means of binding to gether men of like mind at a critical re- time in the of ACCORDING TO the minutes years. Their names now appear on a history the young nation, was Samuel A\ produced here, the members of plaque in the Phi Beta Kappa Memor Hardy. Many years later "* * Phi Beta Kappa, on the eve of its ial Hall in Williamsburg. At the top of second anniversary, feared "that the the tablet are the names of the five State of the Society was declining young men who organized the Society, iildkmU%mLjx. y.A^i Members." through Want of That par and below these are listed the forty-five ' v. C*rcA*6tiu& ..//*t. , *-/ ,/y ticular problem was soon solved by new who joined their ranks, developing and elections, but two years later on Jan perfecting the organization during the uary 6, 1781 British troops were so near four years before the roar of battle that a meeting was called "for the Pur forced them to suspend Phi Beta Kappa pose of Securing the Papers of the So activities in Virginia "in the sure and ciety during the Confusion of the Times, certain hope that the Fraternity will one and the present Dissolution which day rise to life everlasting and Glory im University." mortal." threatens the This, as it turned out, was the last meeting held by The originator of the idea and the So the Virginia Alpha for seventy years. ciety's first president was John Heath, The state of the Society would then Jr., who was eighteen years old at the have declined indeed if the Virginia time, and a prize Greek scholar at the members had not, in the preceding year, College of William and Alary. He is sent charters to the "universities of Cam credited with forming the Greek phrase Haven." bridge and New The branch at Yale was formally organized on No vember 13, 1780, less than two months before the last meeting of the parent branch in Williamsburg. Nineteen Names on a Parchment Charter Slender as the thread of its continuous Without these signatures, and Elisha existence was, Phi Beta Kappa in its first ^-^^yJ.^J'ii Parmele's zeal in the charter to period was remarkable in carrying Williamsburg New Haven, Phi Beta Kappa the distinction of the its own right for would have gone out of existence when fiftv members elected in its first four the Virginia Alpha suspended activity in 1781. www.pbk.org Parmele, who chose the ministry as his career, had, like Hardy, a short life. While serving as pastor of the Presby terian Church in Lee, Massachusetts, he caught a cold that he was unable to ' throw - off, and a southern was or MC'Yo Ci :; iai .'-u!.w..u_ ..He. $m& served in the Virginia ception. He was John James 1 . ii . ... i Beckley, 1 . , i _L^i J. M L' who at the time of :! House his initiation into -v i^ i^JBlL ti L\ U\ .:.cm -. of Delegates, rJC<" iMiM.OL' , ' i ' Xi I >,,, -.;,ri /, C 1 1 'JZ .E three Virginia the Society at the age of twenty-three :- . OUU CUO Wis iv, ,/, i m Senators, five had c- been Clerk of the State . : i && iCbi u.OV.'OOttv Mv . already ^^i. members of the U. S. I 1*11 El D-K I Z\ LU-; .i in i Senate. he served as Clerk of Congress, two Eventually lv!: L:^i\! - 1 Mil \l. . OLi. Ufo-Mlf P | the Virginia General of ! !' f>iXtHSOt*T U. S. Senators, Court, 1 U 0 IH, . ci L 1 II l\X mULtWMl Secretary ' T - and first the Virginia 1 , 1 the ttiOEM:*. WlLLi.u--l U^cLXEK! j _ J ratifying convention, Mayor CCClvl.:'": "1 ' . Librarian .-. of Congress. of Richmond, and the first Clerk of the - ; i -. Virginia House of Delegates to serve in M the new Capitol in Richmond t-dJ. ZOM& jr \ i,., manager," "party and he unquestionably had his finger in many pies; but too ac tive participation in the campaign of William Short wrote of him, "He was a General Assembly of Virginia paid all Thomas Jefferson brought the wrath of man of a most comprehensive mind, but the expenses for his funeral in New York. the Federalists on his head. He was as he was what was termed an irregular Elisha Parmele, the "gentleman from ousted from his post as Clerk of the Eastward," House of and student, that is, not entitled to wear a the had studied at Yale but Representatives tempor esti received from Harvard in eyed with great disfavor. When cap and gown, he was not held in his A.B. 1777, arily Jefferson mation bv the pedantic and often thick and in 1779 was tutoring in a Virginia became President, however, headed cap-and-gown students. I re family. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in Beckley not only got his old job back, of that he applied but was given one that of member yet my surprise when he com July year, for a char newly created, ter on and Librarian of Congress. was the municated to me his plan for extending for Harvard December 4, five He only later for a charter man ever to hold both of these offices at branches of our Society to the different days for Yale. These States. It was the first symptom of any he carried north in 1780. the same time. thing coming from him, indicative of his mind. He expatiated on the great advantages that would attend it in bind ing together the several States. "I happened at that time to be ac quainted with a gentleman from the Eastward who was a private tutor in the family of one of my friends, and as I knew he then contemplated returning to his native state, I suggested to Mr. Hardy the propriety of bringing for ward his plan before the society, so that the charter might be ready to be sent by this gentleman. It was accordingly done." Hardy, the man with the idea, did not live to see his thirtieth birthday, but his brief life was filled with honors. At the age of was elected to the Vir he 'Y' twenty '"' ' : '. *-, ginia House of Delegates, and five years later, in 1783, to the Continental Con gress. In all the battles that raged there he fought hard, but maintained his seren ity and friendships throughout. At his John Heath Daniel Carroll Brent death in 1785 the members of Congress The founder and first president of Phi Beta Fourth and last treasurer of the early Society. attended his funeral in a body, and the Kappa later served in the U. S. Congress. His signature appears on the Yale charter. 2 THE KEY REPORTER www.pbk.org Beckley was secretary of Phi Beta Kappa when the Harvard and Yale char ters were prepared, and along with Sam uel Hardy and William Short was among the nineteen signers. Short, the Society's second president, was the first man to receive an appoint ment to public office under the new Con stitution of the United States. Just seven teen when elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he remained one of the most active leaders throughout its first four years; and shortly before his death at the age of ninety he lent his support to the revival of the parent chapter. On leaving college, Short entered dip lomatic service, and went to France as Jefferson's secretary in 1785. When Jef ferson became Secretary of State in 1789, Short then thirty years of age was made Charge d'affaires in Paris, his com William Short Archibald Stuart President" mission being the first to be signed bv The second president of Phi Bela Kappa, who "Standing Vice of the early Soci a the Alpha in Senate President Washington. Later he served became diplomat. Secretary of ety. He later served in the Virginia 177 he took the minutes shown on page 1. and as a Judge the slate's General Court. as Minister to The Hague and as Com S, of 1 missioner to Spain. Until Jefferson's death Short remained one of his closest friends. - IT is perhaps ultimately to Jefferson that Phi Beta Kappa owes the dis tinction of listing John Marshall founders." among the "fifty During his term as Governor of Virginia, Jefferson established a course of lectures on the law at the College of William and Mary by transferring funds that originally en dowed a chair of theology. Captain John Marshall was drawn to Williamsburg by this course while waiting for a new com mand. His class notes show him to have been a "doodler"; legal phrases were ornamented hearts and curlycues by Bushrod Washington Samuel with the name of his beloved Hardy Polly mind," The first alumnus member, elected while "A man of_a most comprehensive he Ambler, whom he later married in the studying law in Williamsburg. He inherited urged the extension of the Society to other center of each. seni- Mount Vernon from George Washington, and states. He died, aged twenty-seven, while Beginning his political career in 1782 served with Marshall on the Supreme Court. ing as a member of the Continental Congress. in the Virginia House of Delegates, Marshall was a member of the X.Y.Z. mission in 1797. He subsequently served as a member of Congress and as Secretary of State. In 1801 he became Chief Jus tice of the United States Supreme Court. He had declined many important ap pointments, including those of Minister to France, Secretary of War, and (in 1798) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The early members of Phi Beta Kappa included other eminent jurists besides Marshall, among them Spencer Roane one of Marshall's most vehement critics and Bushrod Washington. Roane was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the age of seventeen, and to the Vir ginia House of Delegates at twenty-one. After serving as a State Senator, and as a the General he was Judge of Court, John Brown Spencer Roane elected to the Supreme Court of Ap A delegate to the Virginia convention called Patrick Henry's son-in-law and Judge of Vir peals. thirty-two at the time of his Only to consider the Constitution, he voted against ginia's Court of Appeals. He vehemently op election, he remained in this post for the ratification, but later sensed in the Senate. posed Marshall's ideas on federal supremacy. SUMMER, 1960 www.pbk.org rest of his life. A strong believer in the sovereignty of the states, he was con sidered one of the court's ablest mem bers, and was active in defending it against the federal Supreme Court's as sertion of authority. Bushrod Washington, Associate Jus tice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1798 until his death in 1829, was also the first alumnus member of Phi Beta Kappa. He had graduated from William and Mary in 1778, but it was not until he returned to take the new law course that he was elected to membership in the So ciety. He took his place on the Su preme Court bench only after John Mar shall had refused the appointment. Nephew of the first President, Wash ington inherited Mount Vernon, where he lived from 1802, the year Martha Washington died, until his own death. nat Archive John Marshall Peyton Short ALTOGETHER, at least twenty-four - of the fifty founders took some part "June 3rd, 17S0. Mr Wm Cabell according to order delivered his declamation on the Question in political life. given out. Mr Peyton Short being unprepared was silent on the occasion. Mr Marshall & Gen Question." John Brown, the first United States tlemen not immediately interested argued the How the future Chief Justice fared in the argument is not but it is evident that Peyton Short was quite out favor. Senator from Kentucky, was educated at recorded, of Princeton before transferring to Wil liam and Marv. He was elected to the against adoption of the Constitution as a kinsmen, who served throughout the war Continental Congress at the age of thirty, member of the Virginia ratifying con with distinction. and then represented the Kentucky dis vention. In 1794 he succeeded James When the College of William and trict of Virginia in the first session of Monroe in the U. S. Senate, where he Mary re-opened in the fall of 1782, there until served until in were Congress in 1789, serving 1792, his death 1803. no members in Williamsburg to when Kentucky became an independent Many of the fifty early members saw move for continuance of the Society. It state. Another early member, William military service, among them George was Landon Cabell who first returned. Short's brother Peyton, was elected to Lee Turberville, aide to General Charles The college steward, with whom the So the Senate of Kentucky that same year. Lee during the war; John Jones, Jr., ciety's official papers had been left, a was Colonel in the William placed them Also U. S. Senator Stevens Militia; Madison, in his hands for safe keep Thomson Mason, nephew of George brother of President Madison, and John ing. They remained with the Cabell Mason. An aide to General Washington Morrison, both Majors in the Virginia family until 1849, when Landon's son at Yorktown, he was elected to the forces; George Brent, Captain in the presented them to the Virginia His twenty- House of Delegates at the age of Cavalry; John Swann, Major in Baylor's torical Society, which forty-six years three and soon thereafter to the State Dragoons, and the three Cabells, Wil later returned them to the College of Senate. Strongly anti-Federalist, he voted liam, Joseph, and Landon, all of them William and Alary. The original Phi Beta Kappa seal was in the keeping of Archibald Stuart, the Vice President" S* y "standing of the Alpha. Later a Judge in the Virginia General * '' Court, Stuart was the son of the founder ' - ' y - ay, / -ft^j-- ?*-* of VS> i"-<-->'-'y Liberty Hall Academy, which is now Washington and Lee University. When -4&- he Cp-y* ; went off to war r*,^~r--*^;'-%..^.-~yrv S". :is*,i-ik~>*-: he apparently could find no safe place to leave the seal, and it is s> believed that he tucked it into /' his pocket. Returning to college at the end of the war, he found the Society no 4Hjxr .t, _ /4, .*4tLs?td .; longer and once y active, again put the seal away. Neither the of '/ K.:*4, carefully existence y the seal nor its whereabouts were known to his family until it was discovered in an &*,**** unused desk <*?- <^* drawer his son M.y ;/- ,/,, t ? r~M. by many years after his death. It was returned to y the *-** College, but has since been lost. *-> /%4*r*< /,/... "// t. ->-*y%/ . *y*>~*k And *T<& so the Virginia period of Phi Beta Kappa came to an end. But the ,/,:.. y fifty founders did much to lay the foun dation not of a but of A Requirement Later Revoked only voung society a young nation, in the hope that one dav On. December 10, 1778, it was voted "that in future, admission to this Society, be not confined alone." both would have been made "rise to life and to collegians This alteration in the earliest laws may to everlasting specifically immortal." permit Elisha Parmele's election, thus facilitating Phi Beta Kappa's extension to New England. Glorv THE KEY REPORTER www.pbk.org Power Without Property: A New Develop ment in American Political Economy. By READING Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Harcourt, Brace. $3.75. Here we have a new, readable, and impor Recommended the Book Committee tant chapter in the account of revolutionary by econom}- changes in the American to which Humanities Guy A. Cardwell, John Cournos, Robert B. Heilman, the author and Gardiner Means first called Berle (Philosophy, Literature, Fine Arts) George N. Shuster attention nearly thirty years ago. Mr. Social Sciences Robert C. Angell, Frederick B. Artz, Robert K. Carr, presents evidence of the continued widen A. 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