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...lecturer he's no wizard," said one undergraduate about Arthur Maass, "but as a teacher he's terrific." Reports of those who have worked closely with him, stressing both his high degree of personal interest and dynamism, place Maass among the few men in the University who have devoted their lives to teaching as well as research...
...they are wrong: barely ten years ago Maass could not wait to leave the University. He had left his job in Washington, lured by a Littauer scholarship, to study natural resources' administration. "I didn't want to stay," he says, "I wanted to get back to Washington as fast as I could...
...Maass first went to Washington fresh out of Johns Hopkins in 1939 when he was requested to become what was known as a Government Interne. Inspired by Roosevek's 1938 effort to reform the Civil Service, financed by John D. Rockefeller, and run by the National Institute of Public Affairs, the Government Interne plan recruited forty college juniors of all-around ability and put them to work for a year. Although the plan offered no pay, for that would have enmeshed it in the Civil Service seniority and protocol system, it offered students a quick way to enter whatever agency...
...assistant professors of Government are having books published this fall. Robert G. McCloskey's "American Conservatism and the Age of Enterprise" analyzes the post-Civil War period through the personalities of Andrew Carnegie, William Graham Summer, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field. Arthur Maass' "Muddy Waters" discusses the Army Engineer Corps and its relation to the entire U.S. conservation program...
...assistant professors of Government are having books published this fall. Robert G. McCloskey's "American Conservatism and the Age of Enterprise" analyzes the post-Civil War period through the personalities of Andrew Carnegie, William Graham Summer, and Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field. Arthur Maass' "Muddy Waters" discusses the Army Engineer Corps and its relation to the entire U.S. conservation program...