Word: salzburgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 17, the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies will begin its third summer session in Austria with a faculty of 12 American professors and a Student body of about 100 men and women from almost every country in Europe. A staff of six undergraduates and several faculty wives will take care of the administration of the school...
...Scott B. Elledge, and English instructor, a group of undergraduates developed the idea of school where student's of all nationalities could come together and establish international friendship and understanding. With the sponsorship of the Students Council, they rented an eighteenth century castle, Leopoldskron, outside the Austrian city of Salzburg from the widow of producer Max Rinehardt. They convinced several well-known American teachers of the soundness of their idea, among whom were Professors Wassily Leontief, F. O. Matthiesen, and Benjamin F. Wright of Harvard and Margaret Mead of the American Museum of Natural History...
...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...
...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...