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- Title: ACUTE: the First Twenty-Five Years, 1957-1982.
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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From the perspective of 1982, and an Association membership of over nine hundred, it is possible to look back with some satisfaction on the twenty-five years that have elapsed since that June Sunday in 1957 when eighty-two teachers of English from across Canada met with the Learned Societies at the University of Ottawa and voted to continue to meet on an annual basis as a nation-wide professional organization. The decision filled a need which had been felt for decades, and was the culmination of years of preliminary effort on the part of a number of individuals whose lives and careers were interwoven with the development of English studies in Canada. ACUTE emerged partly out of other, broader-based organizations. The oldest of the Learned Societies, the Royal Society of Canada, had been founded in 1882 with the intention that it should, like its English and French prototypes, serve as a focus for the intellectual life of the nation in both the arts and the sciences. In their 1947 study The Humanities in Canada, Watson Kirkconnell and A.S.P. Woodhouse recommended the establishment of an association dedicated more particularly to the humanities, and their suggestion resulted, in 1950-51, in the organizing of the Humanities Association of Canada (HAC). By this time, however, teachers of English--who were heavily represented in the Humanities Association--felt the need for a still more specialized association.
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