Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carvings & Black Cloaks. This summer, as the Holy Year 1950 approached, the Romans once again began sharpening their wits to give money-laden visitors a big welcome. One private enterpriser set up a stall at the foot of St. Peter's steps to peddle rosaries, postcards, photographs. For well-heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third...
...Salzburg Seminar is looking for four undergraduate administrators to handle arrangements for the 1950 summer session, it was announced last night. The positions, which are open to Juniors, and Seniors require work throughout the college year in Cambridge as well as the actual management of the school in Austria for the six-week summer term...
Held at Schloss Leopoldskron just outside the Austrian city of Salzburg, the Seminar has about 100 European graduate students and 10 faculty members each summer and offers courses in American government, history, economics, sociology, anthropology, literature, music...
Last night's announcement by the Salzburg Seminar that there are four openings on its staff for Juniors and Seminar presents a few undergraduates with one of the most interesting and rewarding activities which Harvard has to offer. On the surface the seminar offers a summer trip to Europe and a chance to meet and live with about 100 highly intelligent Europeans. More important, however, it gives the undergraduate an opportunity to work on one of the most significant American contributions to recovery and international understanding in Europe...
After three years of operation in Austria, the seminar has an alumni body of almost 1000 in 17 countries of both East and West. The students who attended the summer sessions--and they were not students in the ordinary sense, since many already had their Doctor's Degrees and were established in journalism, civil service, theater, art, music, or teaching--have spend six weeks studying all aspects of American culture with leading American professors. This academic focus makes the Seminar unique among organization working for international understanding, for it bases friendship and appreciation of other viewpoints on common work land...