RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

242 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
Initial explorations have established the fact
that an extraordinary interest in opportunities
for Washington internsh.ips exists in colleges and
universities throughout the country. In January
1936 the institute announced that it would be
prepared to find opportunities for thirty graduate
students to work within the Federal establishments
during the academic year 1936-37,
and that itwould provide work supervision. In
spite of the fact that no stipends were offered,
the expense of maintenance in all cases being
provided by the successful candidates or by the
academic institutions, over three hundred applications
were filed, and there is every indication
that the students are of the highest caliber.
Applications came from the most representative
American colleges and universities and from all
forty-eight states of the Union. Governmental
authorities are showing a comparable interest,
resulting in the placing of the thirty successful
candidates in positions where there is sensitive
regard for an intern's development.
At the request of numerous colleges the National
Institute also has organized a one-week
Institute of Government, through which undergraduates
are afforded an exceptional opportunity
to meet ranking governmental officials
and to view the operation of the government
agencies that they have previously studied. As a
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