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...Europe's starving students. But, said Austrian-born Harvardman Clemens Ludwig Heller, "It's about time we gave them food for their minds." With the help of the faculty and student council, he started raising money (from students, educators, friends) to found a special summer seminar at Salzburg, Austria-for Europeans only. From U.S. colleges and universities he picked a dozen top educators to teach. He chose erudite Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance) to teach U.S. literature, Italian-born Historian Gaetano Salvemini to teach U.S. history, Anthropologist Margaret Mead for sociology, and James Johnson Sweeney, onetime director...
...Salzburg was no house party. Few students had had time even to attend the music festival. The professors, who receive no salary (some of them even paid their own traveling expenses), often had to get up at 4 a.m. to prepare the day's work...
...live and eat and study in Leopoldskron, an amazing castle whose life Salzburgians say only the arrival of the Seminar saved. Built in 1740 by Archbishop Firmian for his nephew, it became the property during the 'twenties of Germany's famous producer, Max Reinhardt. After the establishment of the Salzburg Festival as a yearly event, Leopoldskron became the center of planning for the festivals and, as Reinhardt's home, the cultural beacon of the city. Reinhardt fled to America before the Nazis, who used the castle for themselves, and with Reinhardt's subsequent death and the war's-end decay...
...came to pass is where the miracle comes in. It started during Harvard's food relief drive, when Clemens Heller 2G, had the idea that Harvard might be able to do more than send food to Europe. He thought originally of a small group of faculty men coming to Salzburg during the festival season to talk about the United States to European students, but the idea grew as he outlined it to the International Student Service, a world organization which had been considering a plan for a rest home for European students...
This is the first of two articles on the Salzburg Seminar written by J. Anthony Lewis '48, the CRIMSON'S Managing Editor who is travelling through Europe. A second installment will appear next week...