In his two interviews, Herbert Arnold discusses topics including: his childhood in Bavaria (now Czech Republic); deportation during WWII; attending Germantown High School in Philadelphia through an American Field Service scholarship; attending university in Germany in Freiburg and Wurzburg; studying under Gerd Tellenbach; teaching intensive German Language at Wesleyan (1962); joining the Wesleyan faculty (1963); the Wesleyan College Plan; tenures of University presidents including Vic Butterfield, Ted Etherington, and Colin Campbell; criticisms of the PhD programs at Wesleyan; running the abroad program for Wesleyan in Germany; attempts at faculty unionization; general shift in higher education in America; work on various University committees; working with Vice President Nathaniel Greene; resistance against COL curriculum; work as Chairman of Board of Trustees for American Field Service; history of the American Field Service organization; work with the Brownstone Quorum; the change in the quality and quantity of the student body over time