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Lucius N. Littauer '78, donor of $2,000,000 for the establishment of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration has presented the University with 2,283 rare works of Hebrew Literature from the H. G. Enelow Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, it was announced last night...
...Cambridge. Along with the continuous increase in the number of concentrators in Government and Economics, an increase brought about by the growing importance of government in the national economy, has come a recognition that public service will absorb a greater percentage of Harvard graduates than ever before. And the Littauer School, another offshot of this movement, will attempt to give these men specialized training before they take up their individual positions on the governmental payroll...
...while the fields of concentration and the Littauer School take care of those professionally interested in government, the Guardian can perform a vital function, both within the college and outside, by catering to amateur interests. If radio talks on administrative reorganization, civil service reform, regulation of industry, and the like can engender a more intelligent attitude towards government in those who do not concentrate in political fields and in the public at large, the experiment of the embryonic publication deserves every aerial success...
Harvard University will inaugurate something definitely new in the field of higher education with the opening on March 1 of the Littauer School of Public Administration. The School has been made possible by a great of $2,000,000 from a distinguished benefactor of the university...
Whether knowledge of the sort can be adequately imparted in classroom will, of course, be the ultimate test of the school's usefulness. Many, no doubt, will snort at the idea, but since it has never had a trial it deserves one. Incidentally, it should be noted that Mr. Littauer is one of those private benefactors whom it has been the policy of the New Deal to discourage and that the occasion and object of his munificence is the New Deal itself. Rather a handsome return for disfavors. --New York Herald Tribune...