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• The piece of land in Mullsj?was planned as an English park for a school already in 1916.
  
  
• The boarding school today contains eleven buildings, four of which are only used in the summer
  
  
• Approximately 10 000 persons, most of them from Sweden and Finland, have been educated in English at the school.
  
  
• The school was founded in 1924 by Mr. Charles Allwood from Marston Green in Warwickshire in England. He was the assistant of the Royal Swedish board of education (Kgl Skolöverstyrelsen) for English in Swedish schools
  
  
• The school has from the start been a language laboratory for designing better methods for teaching modern languages, especially English.
  
  
• The so called "direct method" has been used at the Anglo-American Center in combination with other methods since the 1920:ies. In 1942 some descriptions of the new methods for language teaching developed at the school were collected in the book "Levande språkundervisning" (Living language teaching). Further descriptions of the new methods were included in "Experiment i Mullsj? (Experiments in Mullsj? (1949).
  
  
• All or the radio broadcast teaching of English in Sweden from 1925 was conducted by Mr. Charles Allwood for fifteen years. The ratings by the Swedish Radio showed that the number of students for his lessons were between 300 000 and 400 000 persons per week.
  
  
• The study of intonation in linguistics was introduced in Sweden by Mr. Keth Laycock, student of Ida C. Ward and teacher at the Anglo-American Center since 1932
  
  
• The American variant of English was taught as an equal language form at the Anglo-American Center from 1934 - first by Miss Edith Forbush, Pueblo, Colorado.
  
  
• Dr. I. A. Richards' "New Criticism", later very influential in Sweden, was introduced at the Anglo-American Center in 1936. The method was adapted to Swedish conditions in the investigation "Läsare bedömer litteratur" (Readers judge literature) (1942).
  
  
• Debates in the English style (like in parliament and the Cambridge Union Society) were held at the Anglo-American Center from 1936.
  
  
• English plays were performed regularly by the theater society of the school MADS (Marstonian Amateur Dramatic Society) from 1936. Some of the actors and theatre professionals making their first appearance at the school were Kerstin Rabe (in Hamlet 1939), Lars Engström, Dan Lipchütz and Lars Forssell (in Stephen Spencer's "Trial of a Judge" in 1945).
  
  
• The school magazine "The Eagle Eye" was written and printed by the students and teachers every year from 1942. The first editor was Bengt Peters and the first printer Tom Alwerud. Lars Forssell made his début as a poet in 1945 in The Eagle Eye.
  
  
• Art was taught at the school since 142. Some of the teachers were Adja Yunkers, Nils Ryndel, Leo Pruul, Carl Nesjar, Igor Janczuk and Enelia Paz Gómez.
  
  
• The first holistic Swedish study of a small town was conducted from the school in 1943 with participation among others, Gunnar and Alva Myrdal.
  
  
• More Scandinavian poetry was probably translated to English at the Anglo-American Center than anywhere else. Edith Södergran, Harry Martinsson and Gunnar Ekelöf were, for exemple, translated already in 1947, More than 2000 poets were presented in English in "20th Century Scandinavian Poetry" (1950). A new, even more comprehensive presentation, " Modern Scandinavian Poetry" was made as an assignment from Nordiska Kulturrådet (The Swedish Board for Culture) and the Swedish Institute 1981-82.
  
  
• The Analects of Confucius were translated to Swedish from Chinese at the Anglo-American Center by the Chinese author Hwang Tzu-Y?in 1949.
  
  
• On of the buildings at the school (The Chinese Pavilion) was built in Chinese style in order to honor Hwang Tzu-Y?for his work making Chinese culture known and appreciated en Sweden (1957).