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In this issue's John Harvard's Journal:
World's Fair - The 346th Unique Occasion - Honoris Causa - A Jubilation of Alumni - Commencement Confetti - Speech Excerpts: The Man Thinking Club, A Formidable Woman, and "Empires of the Mind" - Harvard in Russia: Conflicts of Interest - Tenure and Gender - Summa Circumscripta - Changes to the Core Curriculum - Salzburg Celebration - "What Is the Competition for Homelessness?" - People in the News - A Look at Institutional Ethics - For Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck and Successors - Overdue Book Returned - Campaign Checkup - Brevia - The Undergraduate: From Lonely to Alone - Live from New York - Sports
Schloss Leopoldskron, the seminar's headquarters.PHOTO A.SCOPE

Salzburg Celebration

In addition to the half-century anniversary of the Marshall Plan (see "Reconstructing Europe," May-June), 1997 marks a similar milestone in the life of a continuing institution, the Salzburg Seminar. Conceived by Harvard students, the seminar was hailed as "the first general experiment in international education in postwar Europe" in the April 12, 1947, Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Subsequent issues reported on the progress of this "important element in the cultural exchange" between the United States and "that part of Western Europe on our side of the Iron Curtain," and pleaded for funds and supplies. That the seminar's circumstances have improved was reported in this magazine's "Encounters at the Schloss" (November-December 1987, page 66). The seminar's 17,000 alumni will celebrate with a "homecoming" in October, along with regularly scheduled programs on world trade, nationalism, and international law. Its circle of friends has also broadened eastward: among the speakers this year is Mikhail Gorbachev. To another 50 years of civil discourse!

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