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...order that each Fellow may supplement as effectively as possible his own previous academic work and practical experience. For those who have not actually held government positions, the plan provides an opportunity to combine one or two years of graduate work in Government and Economics with a year's internship in some branch of the government...
...During their academic year of internship, the students were assigned to budget directors, executive officers and administrative assistants, research divisions, personnel directors, and other important administrators . . . . They actually worked and studied in more than 30 government agencies as a result of changes in training assignments during the course of the year . . . . Through the universities in Washington arrangements were made for the interns to do academic work supplementing their practical experience...
Already serving the purpose which the Littauer School proposes for itself, are six fellowships here at Harvard financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. They include two years of graduate instruction in courses appropriate to public administration, but interspersed between those two is a year of actual internship at some post in Washington. They too are still in the experimental stage, and there is as yet no full-fledged product of the system. But the first man to enter internship (There was only one the first year.) succeeded so well with his work for the Social Securities Commission that he stayed...
...devote their undergraduate years to such a broad fundamental preparation and then pursue one or the other, or a combination, of two courses. The one is graduate study at the university and the other is actual experience with a training emphasis. The combination is found in the internship method used, as far as the Federal Government at Washington is concerned, by the National Institute's training program. This internship training provides not only experience as a personal assistant to a leading governmental official holding a position of responsibility but also includes educational guidance by the staff of the Institute...
...post graduate course at Harvard University, those Harvard men who wish to "train" for public service have an enviable opportunity, and, to my mind, the best means of attaining their end. In addition, through the requirement of a years of graduate work, the University is opening the advantages of internship to its trainees. With such a program, I am confident, the Harvard graduates of future years will turn their efforts toward achievement in public life with splendid background and developed abilities...