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...assembled citizens, however, Gundolf Goethel has been no ordinary student. The son of an industrial chemist of Oberhausen, Germany, he is one of 265 boys and girls brought over last fall to the U.S. by the American Field Service (originally founded to sponsor wartime ambulance work). Last week, as the town got together to bid him goodbye, it was also paying tribute to an effective, privately run good-will program which is an important part of the U.S. answer to Communist attempts to capture the world's student generation (see above...
Crazy Sports Shirt. Picked from 16,000 applicants from West Germany, Gundolf arrived in August, was made to feel at home right from the start. His hosts were Mr. and Mrs. John Morley, who had volunteered to adopt an exchange student for a year because "there was little enough we could do to help out in this world." Since then, Gundolf has been a member of the family. "Can you imagine" says he, "I have one of their rooms and all their food and they give me presents. These denims I'm wearing, and this, how you say, crazy...
Extra-Curriculums. As the year wore on, Gundolf's career moved with it. He won his letter in track, was elected to the senior honor society and the student council, earned straight A's in his subjects. He also learned about U.S. schools: "The students, most of them go to school to learn something. But there are so many that go just because they have to. In Germany, you don't have to go to high school. It's a privilege. Here there might be too much emphasis on activities and extra-curriculums...
Last week, at the big "Gundolf Send-Off," Culver City presented its visitor with a proclamation of friendship to take back to Oberhausen. Then, dressed in his best double-breasted suit. Gundolf said a few words of his own: "Everybody opened his door and I was welcomed into every house. You made...
...German university. Today this school of thinking fares badly indeed in Heidelberg. A whole army of new men of widely varying intellectual ability has taken up arms against it. A very interesting teacher, quite new in university circles, and a brilliant speaker, now wields enormous influence. He is Professor Gundolf, the author of the best, indeed the first real book on Goethe; a fanatical supporter of personality as the determining factor in life and history. He opposes vigorously the abstract rationalism of the academic philosophy formerly taught at Heidelberg. The next in popularity is Professor Jaspers. College ethics prevent...
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