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...Littauer Fellows were supposed to benefit the School as well as themselves. Planted among the younger students, they could dispense advice from experience picked up during their terms in Washington. Their presence would bolster the administrational esprit de corps of which Littauer is so fond. And most important, they were an antidote to the ivory towered influence that flows from Littauer's brother-sister relation with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Unfortunately, this ambitious experiment has fallen a casualty to inflation. Frozen by the size of the school's endowment, the stipend attached to each Littauer fellowship is not now high enough to attract the same caliber of men as during the depression. The men who get today's Littauer Fellowships, while promising students, lack the experience of the old boys. And if inflation persists, the experience level for the fellowships will continue to drop until it approaches the brief or even blank government training of most Littauer students...
...Littauer's curriculum is too delicately adjusted to the inexperienced to fully reconstruct the old, professional days. But the school can still use some old hands in government. Although there are a few of them in the School's agriculture and foreign service programs, their work is too specialized to serve the purpose of the old Littauer Fellowships...
More experienced Fellows; then, are needed. But how can the Fellowship renaissance come about? Some have suggested slicing the number of Littauer Fellowships to raise the ante for each one. This is a neat bit of budget juggling, precisely what the Nieman Foundation tried when it was caught in the inflationary vise...
...recent years, Littauer has tried a second plan, a sort of manna from heaven idea of asking the Government to finance some Fellowships itself. Such a proposal has firm backing in precedent. Large corporations, trade unions, and the Army have found it profitable to ship promising men here, prepaid, for a year of advanced study. Government agencies, which admit the excellence of Littauer's training program, would like to give promising recruits year of educational leave with pay. If they did, these men could study at Littauer without taking a slice in income...