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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief Service as Club Center...
...number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets belonging to the Center or housed there on permanent loan is well over 3,500. These holdings, plus the 700-odd records kept in the Center's recording-studio, in over 90 per cent of the cases represent gifts to the Center from friends of its program: professors, student organizations, publishing houses in this country and abroad, university presses, national and international institutions whose programs stress the furtherance of intellectual cooperation, alumni, and other persons who, having visited the Center, and became interested in its work, seek through donations to increase its facilities. Berrien...
...Modern Language Center's main function today is as a meeting place for the eight clubs whose members get together there once every two weeks and as a place for receiving eminent guests or presenting public readings and discussion of selected works in various European literatures. The clubs include LeCercle Francais de Harvard, Verein Turmwaechter, Clube Hispanico, Linguistic, Luso-Brazilian, Slavic, Circolo Italiano, and Comparative Literature...
...Center is well-equipped to handle group meetings, illustrated lectures, record recitals, and informal gatherings of plays and poetry, as well as round table discussions of problems related to the interpretation of the various cultures represented by the Center's stock of books, slides, records, reproductions, and realia. Both informal parties and special lectures are presented by the clubs, whose membership numbers anywhere form 15 to 60. Refreshments--beer for the German Club, wine or sherry for most of the others--follow their meetings. The Harvard Council of Foreign Language Clubs, including a representative from each group, makes suggestions...
...wife regularly attend meetings of the Brazilian Club. Foreign students make up a small percentage of the clubs. They stimulate conversation when the tendency is to lapse back into English but they presumably come to this country to learn about cultures other than their own. For this reason, the Center makes no effort to keep them isolated...