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...ventures as the TVA, such regulatory bodies as the SEC (TIME, Feb. 4). The government department and Law School devised special programs. What was needed, however, was a separate graduate school. Last week Harvard got one. The public-spirited donor, found after 30 years of search, was Lucius Nathan Littauer...
...Littauer is the biggest name in the U. S. glove industry. Lucius Littauer's father Nathan started in business peddling gloves from house to house in upstate New York, ended by founding Littauer Brothers. Son Lucius went to Harvard where he made close friends with Theodore Roosevelt, played football, rowed on the crew, began his philanthropies by helping classmates through college. Graduating in 1878, he presently took over and built up his father's business. Gloveman Littauer's own career as a public servant began in 1897 when his glovemaking neighbors sent him to Congress...
Struck dumb with Harvard's good fortune in being the beneficiary of Mr. Littauer's munificence, we can say only that the purpose for which the gift is intended is worthy of it, and that Harvard is deserving of every congratulation. Our only doubt is in the existence of any assurance that the men trained in this school will find recognition and the opportunity to make use of their talents in a still political civil service. Our government must live up to our universities. --Yale News
When asked to give his opinion of the usefulness of the recently endowed Littauer School, Mr. Thomas said that training in a political leader is not so important as the purposes which underly his policies. "What is the government for and what are the motives of its officers?" is a more vital question in present day politics than the education of the leaders...
...statement of Lucius N. Littauer, who established the fund, that "We must build up in America a much higher tone among those in our public service than there is today" represents the same creative attitude that initiated the "Dartmouth in Politics" drive two years ago and the Class of '26 fellowship this fall providing $1500 annually to "a member of the senior class for the first-hand study of public affairs in Washington...