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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard University will inaugurate something definitely new in the field of higher education with the opening on March 1 of the Littauer School of Public Administration. The School has been made possible by a great of $2,000,000 from a distinguished benefactor of the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/9/1937 | See Source »

...commission appointed by President Conant to study the feasibility of establishing a Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard has reported in favor of the experiment. Hence, under the terms of the recent gift of $2,000,000 from Mr. Lucius N. Littauer for the purpose, the university authorities are going ahead with plans for the new school based on the commission's recommendations, and the country is soon to witness a wholly new "educational adventure." We have no doubt it will watch its progress with the keenest of interest and with every hope of its success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURE | 2/3/1937 | See Source »

Whether knowledge of the sort can be adequately imparted in classroom will, of course, be the ultimate test of the school's usefulness. Many, no doubt, will snort at the idea, but since it has never had a trial it deserves one. Incidentally, it should be noted that Mr. Littauer is one of those private benefactors whom it has been the policy of the New Deal to discourage and that the occasion and object of his munificence is the New Deal itself. Rather a handsome return for disfavors. --New York Herald Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURE | 2/3/1937 | See Source »

Establishing a precedent in University development, the new Littauer School of Public Administration will open on March 1, for a three month session without students during which the faculty will hold sessions with fifty prominent officials drawn from federal, state and local government, President Conant announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School Will Open March 1 for Exploratory Session Without Students | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...building for the new school, provided for in Mr. Littauer's $2,000,000 gift, will be completed sometime in 1938. The location is not definite yet. Temporary headquarters will be in Hunt Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School Will Open March 1 for Exploratory Session Without Students | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

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