The Life of learning
Subtitle: the Charles Homer Haskins lectures of the American Council of Learned Societies
By: edited by Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz, with the assistance of Candace Frede.
Contributors: Greenberg, Douglas.; Katz, Stanley Nider.; American Council of Learned Societies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; American Council of Learned Societies
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Description: The American Council of Learned Societies was formed in 1919 to support humanistic learning in the United States and to represent American scholarship abroad. When John William Ward became President of the ACLS in 1982, he believed that the ACLS's tradition of high caliber scholarship and teaching should be commemorated through an annual lecture delivered by a distinguished humanist on the "life of learning." As a result of Ward's vision, each year since 1983 the American Council of Learned Societies has invited one of America's leading scholars to deliver the Haskins Lecture, in honor of Charles Homer Haskins, a distinguished scholar and teacher who was instrumental in the founding of the ACLS.