The American Council of Learned Societies

American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies, to use its full title, is composed of two delegates from each of the eighteen national learned societies. The Council was organized in 191 9-1 920, following the organization in Paris of the International Union of Academies, in which it was desirable to have American scholarship authoritatively represented. The general purpose of the Council is the advancement of the humanities, broadly defined as philosophy, philology and linguistics, classical and oriental studies, art and literature, archaeology, musicology, and certain cultural phases of history and anthropology. The Council's activities consist of organizing and supporting projects of research and publication under its own direction, of making possible American participation in international projects, especially those of the International Union of Academies, of assisting its constituent societies, as well as institutions of learning and groups of scholars, to plan and execute projects of their own, by making modest grants in aid of research to individual schol-