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| | The Gamma of North Carolina Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Davidson College in 1923. The chapter was an outgrowth of a local society for the recognition of attainment in scholarship which had been established at the Mimir Society in 1915. Members of this society under the leadership of President William J. Martin, Jr. and Dr. Joseph M. McConnell, Professor of History and later Dean of the Faculty, petitioned the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa in 1921 for the establishment of a chapter at Davidson. The Triennial Council of the United Chapters meeting at Cleveland, Ohio in September, 1922 approved the petition, and the chapter was installed and the charter publicly presented in Shearer Hall by President Harry W. Chase of the University of North Carolina representing the United Chapters on March 1, 1923. |
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