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...latest issue of Nation, historian Richard Hofstadter terms the College's undergraduate-sponsored Salzburg Seminar in American Studies "one of the most significant educational enterprises in the world today." He speaks of the school's eighty-five "allusive and sensitive" European students, carefully selected from some 16 nations. He boasts of the numerous top American professors who teach and have taught all subjects about the United States, and he concludes that this secluded gathering of western minds is a "triumph over a world that so often succeeds in isolating us and keeping us lonely...
...Salzburg Seminar has recently undergone considerable revision, and all of it will help the school to be even more effective. It now operates on a permanent year-around basis. And it now is a corporation and can receive tax-free charity money in its own right. These changes imply good management; they should lead to a healthy Salzburg and a great deal of through understanding about America among the people of Europe...
There are only two student groups listed among the eight: Phillips Brooks House and the Salzburg Seminar, both peculiar to Harvard. But three of the other charities provide direct benefits to students, including the Red Feather community fund, which last year provided over $17,000 for medical expenses of Harvard students in Boston hospitals...
...reorganized Seminar is operating on a 12-month schedule, following a decision made after last winter's trial term. Previously the school hold its sessions only during the summer, but the demand on the part of European students who wanted to study at Salzburg was so great as to call for a year-round program...
Members of the new Salzburg corporation are all Harvard professors and alumni. They are Dexter Perkins '09, professor at Rochester University, president; Richard D. Campbell Jr, '48, Herbert P. Gleason '50, Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology; Florence R. Kluckhohn, lecturer on Sociology; and Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics...