Word: salzburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision of the Combined Charities Committee and its subsequent ratification by the Student Council depended solely upon consideration of Salzburg Seminar as a charity, disregarding any sentimental connections with Harvard. Absolutely no criticism of Salzburg is implied. The invaluable role it plays in the European intellectual community is well-known and recognised, hence the lack of necessity of formalized Committee endorsement. The Committee has nothing but highest praise for Salzburg's continuing efforts toward improvement of cultural understanding between Europe and the United States. The Harvard student community is well aware of its work, and the Seminar can therefore stand...
Partly because it feels that American representatives so far have been too immature, the executive board of the Salzburg Seminar has decided not to select any more Americans studying in this country...
...charge that the Salzburg Seminar no longer has any connection with Harvard is groundless. It was conceived, inspired and originally supported by Harvard men. There has been at least one member of the Harvard faculty on the Seminar's faculty in almost every session since its inception from the first when the renowned F. O. Matthiessen helped give birth to the Salzburg idea to the most recent in which another great American scholar, Harry Levin, gave insights into the American mind which even American students are seldom privileged to hear, let alone Europeans...
...central offices of the Seminar are in Cambridge. Harvard students who have attended the Seminar serve on its Board of Directors and help to choose participants (from Harvard) for subsequent sessions. The first speech which the Director makes to the assembled participants at the opening of the session at Salzburg, as well as the last speech at its close, is devoted to the role which Harvard has played and is playing (or was playing until the Combined Charities Committee of the Student Council decided that the opinions of the overwhelming majority of the responsible intelligentsia on two continents were erroneous...
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...