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...formidable gauntlet of language tests, theses, and cold-blooded oral examiners. The University has purposely constructed these barriers on the admirable assumption that a doctor's degree from Harvard will only carry distinction if it is hard to obtain. But compared with these rigid standards, the men in the Littauer School's agricultural extension program receive their doctor's degrees almost as a gift...
...advantages of Harvard to America's rural population. But it is too vocational a program to rate the degree of Doctor of Public Administration from a nonvocational school. The only hurdles it presents are a rudimentary knowledge of accounting, a practical thesis project, and a taste of some of Littauer's regular seminar courses...
Even in the non-agricultural seminars, the extension students often get a bargain. Because they have been away from academic life for an average of almost ten years, they are expected to flounder for a while in reading, reports, and exams. And so Littauer's professors often swallow hard and give the extensioneers a higher grade than they really deserve...
...Littauer School, then, wants such grants from Congress, it will have to lobby for them. It could be done. The School has many professors who have reached positions of considerable prominence braintrusting in Washington. If they dropped some influence in the right places (and they, as students of government, should know where these places are) they might squeeze the money out of Congress. Two or three of them have tried this in the past, but it will take more professional-influencing if Littauer is to get any results...
Unless the paid educational leaves come through, the budget juggling method may be necessary. But whatever the method, Littauer should try to return to the old conception of its Fellowships, and so renew the professional character which was Littauer's dream, and can still be one of its prides...