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...Richard E. Neustadt, the director of the Institute, puts it, "We got a cockeyed image--some of it was due to the McNamara incident, some of it to the fanfare that greeted the renaming of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and some of it to the article by Henry Fairlie...
...example, Neustadt is not yet sure what specific role the Institute Fellows--a group of young men leaving government service for private life with the expectation of returning to service--will play. Presently, many of them conduct non-credit seminars for undergraduates on public policy problems and policies. They also attend House lunch tables, and participate in other informal discussions. But they have not, as Neustadt explains with some regret, been brought into the existing Faculty study groups as fully as he'd like. Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor and chairman of the Institute's Fellowships Committee, blamed this...
Ironically, for all the interest and concern the Institute seems to have stimulated, its operations this fall have been of a limited and experimental nature. Neustadt himself has gone to great lengths to emphasize that the Institute will not, for awhile at least, impose a rigid pattern on any of its major programs--the Faculty study groups, the Institute Fellowships, the undergraduate seminars, or the visits of the Honorary Associates...
...concepts behind the Fellowship program was Neustadt's "in-and-outer"--that is, someone who intermittently crosses the bridge between public and private life. He feels that a year at Harvard, where a young ex-official could exchange ideas with members of the academic community and contribute some insights into practical policy matters, would be valuable...
Despite the ambiguity over the concept behind the Fellowships, Neustadt feels that the Fellows can play an important role in the Institute by helping "to stimulate and participate in the intellectual activity of the Faculty members in study groups...