Word: leopoldskron
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...picturesque 18th century Austrian castle, called Leopoldskron, once the traditional palace of the archbishopric of Salzburg, has become the first teaching center in Europe for advanced study of American civilization. One of the few real attempts ever made to unite Americans and Europeans culturally, the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies has expanded far beyond the original hopes of its founder, Clemens Heller...
...early post-war years, Heller and a friend of his, Richard D. Campbell, Jr.'48, had pushed the idea of an American seminar in Europe. When the widow of the famed German producer, Max Rinehart, offered to donate Leopoldskron to them, they were able to enlist the support of such influential figures as ex-President Conant, and received the sponsorship of the Student Council and the International Student Service. But funds were still difficult to raise. Heller and the other Americans sweated out the first session in the summer of 1947. The war in Europe had ended only two years...
...faculty at Leopoldskron, in addition to a small group of Europeans, consists mainly of professors from more than three dozen American colleges and universities. Such notable scholars as sociologist Margaret Mead and University Professor Zechariah Chafee, Jr., serve without pay to offer Europeans one of their few opportunities to observe American culture first hand...
Throughout the Seminar the brooding and benevolent spirit of Harvard is manifest in innumerable ways. And in the speech which he interrupted his vacation to give at Schloss Leopoldskron, the home of the Salzburg Seminar, High Commissioner James Bryant Conant expressed a justifiable pride in Harvard's role in the Seminar's history...
...four students will go to Salzburg expenses paid, and will live for six weeks in Schloss Leopoldskron with 90 students and professional people from all of Western Europe...