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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the winter and spring, the Seminar cooperates with World Student Relief to support the Leopoldskron Rest Center at the Castle. Groups of 50 European students who are suffering from the effects of illness or physical hardship are admitted for a month of informal study, and relaxation...
...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...
...Student Selection
Without regard to nationality or political belief, preference in student selection is given to those who plan to teach or enter public life, in order to spread the influence of the Seminar as widely as possible. Application are screened by European student organizations and teachers, and final choice is made after an interview with the Executive Director, Professor John Finch of Dartmouth. All students attend the Seminar without cast to themselves, and where necessary they have their travelling expenses paid...
...Executive Committee will decide before June 1 the specific project for which the fund will be spent. Leading alternatives last night were the DP fund and the adoption of a Chinese student. The fund was set up over a year ago out of the proceeds of Henry A. Wallace's speech at Soldiers Field...