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During the summer the 80-room Cumberland Castle in Salzburg, Austria is an intellectual center for European graduate study of Americans, but the winter months find it reconverted into a rest and rehabilitation foundation...
Last week, as Vienna's concert season drew toward its close, it was obvious that no one would stop him for long. He is already scheduled to direct this summer's festival in his native Salzburg. Says crack Vienna Critic Heinrich Kralik: "He is still young and will grow. If he continues his development, he may achieve Toscanini." But, says cocksure Conductor Karajan, who once assisted Toscanini at the Salzburg festival: "Toscanini is Italian and I'm an Austrian. Nothing comes of emulating another conductor...
Other local projects that attempt to carry out the International-exchange idea include a camp for undernourished French children to be maintained by the Harvard and Radcliffe NSA chapters, and the Student Council's Salzburg Seminar, whose second session this summer will bring together foreign students and American Professors...
Into this setting the Salzburg Seminar rose like an oasis in a desert. That it was more than a mirage is evidenced by its emulators who plans projects this year. Washington University NSA will sponsor one in Copenhagen, while a University of Chicago group plans to do the same in Germany. Other colleges throughout the nation have been stimulated to attempt similar projects, as has the Canadian International Student Service...
Soon the question will arise as to whether the administration of Salzburg should remain in the constantly changing hands of the Student Council after 1950. Whether Salzburg continues as a Council project or is transferred to some other agency, two factors should be considered in making the decision. It is essential that Salzburg remain close enough to the student body and faculty to insure continued active interest, and the academic freedom so basic in making the original Salzburg Seminar successful must be preserved free of any political entanglements...