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Wanting to graduate with his peers in 1958, Breck wrote to Harvard and to Yale asking if he could get a year’s credit for his studies of French and German languages and history...
Breck says that he was granted credit in German after approaching Hanson in fall 1955 and discussing a German newspaper with him for about five minutes. Having spent a year across the ocean, Breck says, “I spoke much better German than...
After passing his French language and literature tests, and being granted German credits from Hansen, Breck says that he approached the English Department and asked for an English credit...
...They said, ‘If you got a French and a German, you probably deserve an English,’” Breck recalls...
Mundheim has also served since 2000 as president of the American Academy in Berlin, which invites distinguished academics and practitioners in the humanities and public policy to spend a semester there giving lectures. Mundheim describes the organization as an attempt to “keep the German-American dialogue alive and present American ideas and values for people...