Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on Dec. 5, 1776, by five students at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. It was the first society to ...

reserved for students elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the fall term of their senior year. It was in May 1928 that Connecticut College had instituted the practice of honoring as "Winthrop Scholars" those ...