George P. Coleman
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 34
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Excerpt from The Flat Hat Club and the Phi Beta Kappa Society: Some New Light on Their History In going through the letters and manuscripts of St. George Tucker, which form part of the collection of his grand-daughter, Mrs. Cynthia B. T. Coleman, I came across a little memorandum book kept by him, when he was a student at William and Mary College. In this book I discovered the formal "testimony of friendship of the society," or, as it might be called, the certificate of membership in the society. In a second memorandum book I found a catalog of the books which the Reverend Mr. Gwatkin suggested should be purchased for the Club library. Later I found letters of Thomas Jefferson, and of Thomas McAuley, relative to the early history of the Phi Beta Kappa. It is with the hope that some additional light may be thrown upon the history of college fraternities in the United States, that I present this material in the present form. 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.
