The Wisconsin Alpha Chapter of Phi
Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for
Philosophy at Marquette University, each
year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture
in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. This year
the lecture was delivered on Sunday, Feb-
ruary 22, 1976.

The 1976 Aquinas Lecture Aquinas to
Whitehead: Seven Centuries of Meta-
physics of Religion was delivered in Todd
Wehr Chemistry by Professor Charles E.
Hartshorne, Professor of Philosophy, the
University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Hartshorne was born on June
5, 1897, in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. He
earned the A.B. at Haverford College in
1917, his M.A. at Harvard in 1921 and his
Ph.D. in 1923. He studied two years at the
University of Freiburg and one year at
the University of Marburg in Germany.
He began teaching at Harvard University
and after three years joined the faculty of
the University of Chicago where he taught
for the next 27 years, until 1955. He taught
at Emory University from 1956 to 1962

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