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Largely through the efforts of Professor Muensterberg during his service as Exchange Professor 1909-10, a so-called "Amerika Institut" has been founded in Berlin for the purpose of strengthening relations between Germany and America by serving as a bureau of exchange and inquiry, both public and personal. It is intended as an aid to both American students, professors, and officials in Germany, and to German scholars and travellers in this country. It already has a wide correspondence with persons seeking assistance for various scholarly purposes...
Object of the Amerika-Institut...
...service of the Amerika-Institut, which was established under Professor Muensterberg's directorship, in awakening both countries to the advantages of mutual intercourse, is fully explained, in a way that presents the full significance of the phrase which describes its purpose--"to further and expand the cultural relations between the United States an Germany." Such an organized move has been necessary, because, in spite of the fact that thousands of Americans visit Germany every summer, most of them look upon the excursion as a "gaudy vacation" and do not work hard "as unofficial delegates of their country for the cultivation...
...arrangement has recently been made with the department of the ministry of education at Berlin for the establishment of the "Amerika Institut" to be devoted to the improvement of intellectual relations between Germany and the United States. It is limited to the improvement of mutual relations and interests in research, scholarship, education, professional courtesies, literature, and art. Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at the University of Berlin for the current academic year, is the inventor and promoter of the enterprise and is serving as the first director of the "Institut." It has been endowed...
Professor Hugo Muensterberg, who is exchange professor at Berlin for the current academic year, is serving as the first director of the recently established "Amerika Institut" in that city, according to information just received by the State Department at Washington from the Berlin embassy. The institute is strictly under German administration. It is founded and supported by American and German contributors, to serve as an exchange of cultural relations between the United States and Germany...