TRAINING IN GOVERNMENT

Inaugurating an "internship" plan for the study of American government and awarding a number of scholarships to students of political science and allied subjects, the National Institution of Public Affairs is fulfilling a long felt need. Training for public service has long been neglected especially in its practical aspects.

The winners of the appointments to the Institution will be brought to Washington for the months of February and March, 1935, for a practical experience designed to supplement classroom study of political science in the preparation for leadership in public affairs. Each student will serve as an apprentice to a government official, receiving instruction at the same time. The Institution is a nonpartisan, privately financed organization. The American political arena is desperately in need of young men specially trained for governmental positions and free from entangling alliances with party bosses and machines.

Here within the University the necessity for training similar to that offered by the newly organized Institution of Public Affairs is obvious. A graduate school of Public Affairs would fulfill the need or at least some provision for practical training tin government for students of political science must be provided. For it is they who will take over the reins of political control in the future and they must be trained for the responsibilities of leadership while young and free from partisan tutelage.