RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 243
first experiment, the National Institute announced
that it could accept sixty participants
in this Institute of Government. It received
over two hundred requests and actually accommodated
eighty students.
Social Science Research Council
Public Administration Committee
An
appropriation of $165,000 to the Social
Science Research Council, for the use of its
Public Administration Committee during the
five-year period July 1, 1935, to June 30, 1940,
provided 315,000 which might be allocated for
brief or exploratory studies or projects during
the first year, and $30,000 each year for the expenses
of maintaining a full-time staff.
The Public Administration Committee of the
Social Science Research Council had been in existence
for a number of years before this grant was
provided, and had a membership thoroughly representative
of leading scholars and men actively
engaged in public administration. Equipped with
a full-time staff, this group appeared suited to
serve in a liaison capacity between public'administrators
and
scholars having interest and
ability to study practical problems in their basic
aspects. The integration of work in public administration
now
carried on in the several research
centers of the country will be attempted
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