Word: mccloskey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applications for admission to the Littauer School of Public Administration have decreased by almost one-third this year because of generally unattractive conditions in the Civil Service, Robert G. McCloskey, Littauer administrator and Associate Professor of Government, said last night...
...McCloskey added, however, that he is "certain the present situation is only temporary...
Littauer, which last year admitted only one out of every four applicants, will decrease the present enrollment of about 100 for next fall, while it maintains the 25 per cent proportion of acceptances, McCloskey stated...
...quota of three women now enrolled in Littauer will not be substantially different next fall. The school has no maximum on the number of women it can admit, McCloskey said, but in almost all cases women applicants must have had previous public service experience. This requirement is due to a corporation ruling, intended to limit the female enrollment which provides that students must be Littauer fellows...
...parallel with Sutherland's economic freedom shows that, in the end, the issue is one of values. McCloskey makes a convincing case for the traditional sanctity of civil rights. But if security--against real or imaginary dangers--is going to be a superior value to the people, the history of the Court shows that the people will have their way. The Courts cannot hold out long as the only protectors of civil liberties--although, as McCloskey points out, the present Court does not even seem to be trying...