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TexasTowelie

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Sun Aug 5, 2018, 08:11 PM Aug 2018

Mississippi State to house Phi Beta Kappa chapter

After 40 years of trying, Mississippi State will soon house a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

The organization voted to grant the chapter Friday at Phi Beta Kappa's 45th Triennial Council in Boston, according to a MSU press release.

Founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, during the American Revolution, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest and one of its most prestigious academic honor societies.

MSU first began trying to bring a chapter to Starkville's campus in 1976 when Morris "Bill" Collins, founder of the university's Stennis Institute of Government, submitted an application. Other MSU faculty led application initiatives in 1982, 1985, 1988, 2000 and 2003, according to MSU's press release.

Read more: http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=67507

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