Word: littauer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this middle of the road be closely followed. The higher realms of political theory are proper fields for those who intend to teach, but those whose immediate business is the government service have neither the time nor the energy to spare for such studies. On the other hand, the Littauer school cannot fill the shoes ordered for it if it provides nothing more than narrow vocational training. Its business, in the words of the Commission's report, is to give the student "a grasp of public administration in its broader phases as a branch of the science of government...
...wisdom and shrewd deliberation evinced in today's recommendations for the organization of the Graduate School of Public Administration continue to characterize the development of that school, Mr. Littauer should see his gift unfold as a genuinely noble experiment, in the pre-Prohibition sense of the expression. Guided by the excellent maxim that "It is far more important that the work of training students be started right than that it be started early", the commission has advocated a slow beginning, with a year set aside for conditioning in cooperation with bureau chiefs, before students are admitted in September...
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...
...Harvard and that 14 men are on the faculty. They are James B. Munn, professor of English; Samuel Hazzard Cross, associate professor of Slavic Languages; George K. Gardner, professor of Law; Kenneth P. Kempton, instructor in English; Sam B. Warner, professor of penal legislation; Harry A. Wolfson, Nathan Littauer Professor of Jewish Literature and Philosophy; Ronald M. Ferry, master of Winthrop House; Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Observatory; Thomas R. Goethals, associate in obstetrics; Paul Gustafson, assistant in obstetrics; Thomas H. Lanman, associate in surgery; Arthur W. Hanson, professor of accounting; Fabyan Packard, assistant professor of hygiene...
...purposes of the 300th Fund are to gain money for the University Professorships and for the National Scholarships originated by President Conant. Thus far a total of $5,514,192.96 has been donated under this Fund but of this $2,000,000 was for the Littauer School of Public Administration. The need for Unrestricted money is felt to be still a pressing one by University Hall, and it is hoped through the continuation of this Fund to keep up the interest of the graduates in progress of National Scholarships and University Professorships...