Word: littauer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is scarcely conducive to the maintenance of faith of whatever sort, Lucius N. Littauer, donor of $2,000,000 to the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, has managed to celebrate his eightieth birthday with words of good cheer and hope. "I can be classified," he told reporters without wavering, "as one who has confidence for the future in spite of the present...
...Littauer, clearly, is no theoretical idealist. He translates his vision into action, within his compass. The school at Harvard, for example, is designed to train superior administrators of public office, a worthy objective, and the Littauer Foundation was founded to promote "better understanding among mankind...
...best of times it is not the easiest thing to reach eighty without a bundle of besetting doubts of Things as They Are and at least a modest core of downright skepticism. To have retained poise and serenity and faith against recent developments is an achievement of which Mr. Littauer may well be proud. Boston Transcript...
Doggedly the reporter trailed his prey to the Littauer Center at Harvard in the evening. Awaiting the chairman of the Democratic Committee were a select group of Government professors and Public Administration students. "It is strictly off the record," someone explained as the reporter tried to follow Farley through the door...
Prominent among the money donations received from alumni of the College, was a sum for the completion of the Hebrew Collection, by Lucius Littauer '78 of New York City. J. Pierpont Morgan '89 contributed to the general needs of the library. For book purchases, largely toward the William Dean Howells Collection of Letters, 47 "Friends of the Library" contributed...