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Also an innovation was the splitting of the Council budget, last year $10,000, into its components of charities and plain administrative expenses. The Council supported charities, which include Phillips Brooks House, Council scholarships, Displaced Persons Drive, and a contribution to the Salzburg Seminar, will now appear at the head of a list of "Charities of special interest to students...
...Talcott Parsons, professor of sociology, made his first trip to the Seminar. In gener- al, however, the teaching staff was more broadly representative of the United States than in the first year. Professor Henry Nash Smith of the University of Minnesota was chosen as Executive Director and lectured at Salzburg on the for tan lectured at Salzburg on the impact of thew West in American Though...
...long ago, a German student wrote of his six weeks at Salzburg, "The Seminar was the greatest intellectual and personal experience of may academic life. The words 'France' or 'Norway' or 'Czechoslovakia' will no more produce as the first association in our minds a piece of the map and some vague prejudices, but very concrete pictures of some friendly faces, acts of courtesy and help, witty remarks or the memory of outstanding personal destines...
...French student at Salzburg last summer wrote. "One of the most admirable things about the Seminar was the absence of official propaganda. Most of the American students and professors proved entirely unbiased and broadminded, willing to learn about Europe as much as we were to learn about America...
...Salzburg was found to be a suitable location both academically and geographically. The Semiar coincides with the annual Music Festival, and regular concerts are given at the Castle by members of the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg. More important, Austria as an occupied country is one of the few places in Europe where East and West can meet...