Word: littauer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considerable comment both favorable and adverse has been circulating among those interested in Harvard affairs in regard to the proposed use of the Littauer bequest. The new School of Public Administration, although still in an embryonic state, has at last been defined and planned out. It has been argued by many who profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even...
...only medium whereby effective management of the many branches of government may be achieved. Civil Service examinations in many of the lower brackets are a step towards putting positions which require knowledge and training in one specific field in the hands of those who possess them. The Littauer School proposes not to replace these, nor even to give the training necessary to pass them, and it is designed neither to supply theoretical and general education, nor to omit these from its curriculum...
Association of the School with the Department of Economics and the Littauer School of Public Administration is believed to be part of the plan of expansion...
...used is a School of Journalism. With the new Graduate School of Public Administration now well underway, many persons see no reason why a similar set-up cannot be fabricated for journalism. The curriculum might be decided upon and courses planned in the same way innovated by the Littauer School, namely, by conference with newspapermen and authorities who know the needs of their particular field...
...replace the old Hemenway gymnasium which will be torn down in February to make room for the Littauer building, construction on a new Hemenway gymnasium will probably start within a month according to present plans. It will be located on Massachusetts Avenue, very near the old building, and will be completed by the 1937-1987 season...