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Ten American Educators to Teach At Fifth Salzburg Seminar Season

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Ten educators from the United States--including one Harvard professor--will teach Europeans about American culture at the Salzburg Seminar this summer, the Seminar announced yesterday.

In addition to George C. Homans '32, professor of Social Relations, the faculty will include Henry Steele Commager, professor of American History at Columbia University; John Hope Franklin, professor of History at Howard University; Howard Higman, associate professor of Government at Colorado University; and Richard W. B. Lewis '39, formerly professor of Literature at Bennington.

Others include Alfred Kazin, author and critic from New York; David McClel and, professor of Psychology at Wesleyan; Jean T. McKelvey, professor of Labor Relations at Cornell; Paul E. Sultan, professor of Economics at the University of Buffalo; and Julius S. Bixler, President of Colby College, who will teach American philosophy.

Another Harvard faculty member, Professor Alex Inkeles of the Graduate School of Public Administration, will teach at a special session of the Seminar.

This summer's meeting will be the fifth summer session of the seminar, which periodically takes American professor to Salzburg, Austria, to teach young European intellectuals and professional people about the United States.

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