German Scholars Boston, also known as German Scholars Agency, and abbreviated as GSA or GSB, is an independent organization for and of 12000+ German speaking scholars, alumni and professionals living and working in Cambridge or the greater Boston area interested in Germanic culture. It comprises scientists, scholars, students, fellows, post-docs and alumni from all major universities in the area, including but not limited to Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and Tufts University, as well as professionals from different companies, and people from government- and non-governmental organizations. With more than 6000 alumni, GSB's worldwide membership is at 12000+ now.
GSB provides a forum for its members to meet, discuss, exchange ideas and vital information. As such, GSB invites to specific cultural and social events to get together on a regular basis.
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“She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
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What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)