RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 239
ing the social science program of the university.
Subsequent to the Foundation's grant, a substantial
endowment was provided by a Harvard
alumnus, Mr. Lucius N. Littauer, for a school
of public administration designed to bring about
much more extended development in this field
throughout the university.
Syracuse University
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Within the year covered by this report an
appropriation of 339,000 was made to allow the
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at
Syracuse University to expand its training course
in public administration and to lengthen the
course from one to two years. This school has
pioneered in training for the public service over
the past ten years. Since 1932 the Foundation
has been contributing to research and training
projects at the school, which previously had been
aided by grants from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial.
The training program has provided an intensive
year of graduate work focused upon pr^ctical
problems that arise in the administration of
a wide variety of governmental activities. An
effort has been made to professionalize training
and to abstract for teaching purposes general
principles of administrative procedure in the
belief that, paralleling the experience of medi-
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