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...Littauer, who gave the $2,500,000 to establish the school, described the laying of this stone as an "important milestone here at Harvard and in public life. The completion of this building should point to the day when public office, in the hands of broadly educated and highly expert public administrators, will really become a public trust...
Stressing the future as a quest for progressive perfection in government, Mr. Littauer is confident that "here capable men will be taught how to improve and administer the wide range of government activities, competently and efficiently, and to carve new and better paths in the pattern of democracy...
Reaffirming his belief that democracy can be made efficient, Mr. Littauer descended to spread the mortar for the cornerstone and the photographers. "This is for history," President Conant reassured him, as he held his pose, trowel in hand, for several minutes...
...laying of the corner-stone of the Littauer Building marks another step in a long and arduous journey towards the ideal of making democracy work. The fundamental objective of the Littauer School is the improvement of the local, state, and national administration in this country; this is certainly a large and difficult order...
Cooperation with the government is indeed of fundamental importance, though the vicissitudes of politics should have absolutely no control over the plan of study. The middle course necessarily will be more difficult to follow while criticism will rage continually on all sides. But such problems the Littauer School will have to face with farsightedness and efficiency, if it expects to travel far on the road to better government...