Title: Confrontation and learned societies /
Authors: American Council of Learned Societies.; Voss, John,; Ward, Paul L.,; Voss, John,; Ward, Paul L.,
Date: 1970
Publisher: New York University Press,
Physical description: xxx, 126 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Introduction: Academics and Academia -- Civility and Civilization / Arthur E. Sutherland -- University Reform and the Problem of Relevant Scholarship / Michael R. Winston -- Can Scholarship Be Made Less Culture-Bound? / Wm. Theodore de Bary -- Learned Society or Professional Association? / George Winchester Stone, Jr. -- Learning and the Problem of Undergraduate Education / William J. Bouwsma -- Educational Structures and Cultural Fragmentation / Christopher Lasch.
Notes: All but one of the papers in this volume were presented at the 1969 annual spring conference of the executive secretaries of the constituent organizations of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Subject headings (LCSH): Learned institutions and societies--Congresses.