Word: littauer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often in the form of real estate. Records of last year, however, show gifts amounting to $1,400,000. Most gifts are given for a certain field, such as a museum or a type of research. Some are even more specific, such as the recent gift of Mr. Littauer for a School of Public Administration. The remainder are unrestricted, and are spent at the discretion of the University...
Harvard's long-legged Yankee President James Bryant Conant is rapidly proving himself as able a money-getter as his canny predecessor, Abbott Lawrence Lowell. While pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were...
...Gloveman Littauer conceived the idea of a Harvard School of Public Administration quite independently of Harvard authorities. To him, as to many another, the demands of the New Deal revealed the paucity of first-rate civil servants...
Last September Mr. Littauer broached his offer to President Conant. Under the plan announced last week Mr. Littauer will give Harvard $2,000,000, one quarter for a building, the rest as endowment. To lay the groundwork for the school, Dr. Conant last week appointed a committee headed by a fellow university president, Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds, who was the first chairman of the undergraduate School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton...
When the Dodds committee has surveyed the field and laid out a curriculum, Harvard will appoint a dean and three professors, probably open the school in September 1937. Founder Littauer charged the University especially to find "a dean of high abilities, energy and courage." An obvious question last week was whether it could overlook Felix Frankfurter, whose young proteges in Washington are the nearest U. S. approach to the British Civil Service. Since Professor Frankfurter and his "Happy Hot Dogs'' are cordially disliked and distrusted by Republicans, businessmen and most Harvardmen, a good guess was that Harvard will...