Word: salzburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things have over disturbed me quite so much as the thoughtless, senseless and stupid action of the Student Council's Combined Charities Committee in removing the Salzburg Seminar from the list of Harvard-supported charities. But I have derived what consolation I might from the assumption that this ill-considered move was born in ignorance of what the Seminar is doing, since I cannot imagine that rational men, presumably the representatives of rational men, could conduct themselves in such a manner were they in possession of any of the facts...
...Salzburg Seminar in American Studies is one of the few rays of hope in the gloom of world tension and misunderstanding. It is a real, positive and dynamic force the effect of which has been felt in every corner of free Europe. Its prestige on the continent is revealed by even the most cursory examination into the intensity of the competition among European intellectuals for the opportunity to attend one of its sessions...
...esteem with which it is held in America is obvious from the number and the caliber of distinguished American scholars who travel to Salzburg to serve there as members of the Seminar's faculty, without remuneration. The Seminar undertakes with remarkable, if not unqualified, success to explain America to Europe. This is done at Salzburg by many of our most brilliant and articulate scholars speaking to those who do now or in the near future will, influence the public opinion of Europe...
...among others, am not completely happy with the way in which the Seminar is being run from its European offices, I have made my reasons for this abundantly clear in recent communications to the officials, both at Cambridge and Salzburg. But it is precisely because I care so much about the continuing exploitation of the Seminar's magnificent potential that I have bothered to criticize it. If the Student Council's committee has any valid criticism, it certainly should take them up with the proper authorities, but not enter upon a course of action which will not only materially injure...
...Salzburg Seminar, which was begun in 1947 and previously supported by the Council every year, receives over half its money from the Ford, Commonwealth, and other Foundations. The Student Council donation last year from University contributions was about...