Word: beutelsbachers
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Gonzaga in Florence. The U.S. campus abroad is a contagious new fashion in American undergraduate education. Stanford started it in 1958 by acquiring a German estate in tiny Beutelsbach, near Stuttgart. It added a villa in Florence, a hotel in Tours, another hotel near Vienna only last September. New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University took over Wroxton Abbey from Oxford's Trinity College, moved in last summer. Spokane's Gonzaga University (enrollment: 2,440) has its own six-story building in Florence, and California's University of Redlands (enrollment: 1,500) leases a building in Salzburg...
Late each afternoon, villagers of tiny Beutelsbach (pop. 900), in Germany's Rems valley climb the twisting road to the hedge-bound estate of Landgut Burg. Their hosts, American undergraduates studying at Stanford University's experimental overseas branch, serve coffee and kuchen, talk exuberantly in often sprained, sometimes fractured, German. Last week Beutelsbachers were greeting a new batch of Stanford students, the second to arrive in Germany since the 30-acre campus was opened last summer...
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