RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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training program, of which, ordinarily, the first
year is devoted to acquiring any background
necessary to the individual fellow; the second
year is spent in the field upon an internship or
apprenticeship which is carefully arranged to
afford wide opportunity for experience in public
service employment, whether Federal, state, or
local; and the third year, again in residence, is
to be organized around the preparation of a
thesis and
participation in a general seminar
devoted to detailed analysis of public policy and
problems arising out of the apprenticeship experiences.
In addition to this program for selected fellows,
the Harvard Department of Government is
providing an orientation seminar for particularly
able and promising specialists from other
departments of the university who are contemplating
a career in the public service. To plan
the seminar and to advance the general public
service training program, an informal committee
of advisers has been organized which includes
men from other departments and schools of the
university, and a group of cooperating fellows
who are prominent men of affairs.
The university administration has evidenced
great interest in this project, not alone for the
direct end of training public servants, but for the
expected by-product of focusing and coordinat-
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