Institute staff ran closed seminars that American students rarely joined

Evidence

The seminars were virtually discussion groups for the Institute’s associates, and American students only rarely took part in them. If the Institute’s staff kept to themselves the meetings announced in its prospectus, they felt all the more secure. These included, for example, Horkheimer’s seminar on Select Problems in the History of Logic, with Reference to the Basic Concepts of the [sic] Social History' (1936-8), the seminar by Gumperz and Pollock on Theories of the Business Cycle’ (1936-7), Weil’s seminar on Standards of Living in National Socialist Germany', and Adorno's seminar on The Social Setting of Richard Wagner’s Music’ (1938). — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 273

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s recurring pattern of academic insularity established in earlier chapters of this book. — connects to: Former Institut members scattered into American universities and government rather than returning together — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 855; Former Institute associates were systematically held at distance and dispersed into American academia — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1637
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Former Institut members scattered into American universities and government rather than returning together — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 855; Former Institute associates were systematically held at distance and dispersed into American academia — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1637