It is anticipated by Harvard authorities that the curriculum of the institution will follow the suggestions made by the special commission and emphasize the actualities of politics rather than the theories of political science. The courses will probably deal with economic analysis, and the business phases of governmental policy.

Avoid Vocational Training

Also following the report of the commission, the school will carefully avoid becoming a place of vocational training in the narrow sense. It will seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter, although it is expected that career men on leave may orient their work more definitely than recent graduates.

Research will play an important part in the program. Liberal appropriations will be made and heavy teaching loads will be avoided, so that the faculty may promote the well-being of the nation by the results of their research into the difficult and complicated problems of public administration, it was explained.

"The university will endeavor to render a real and increasing service to the cause of better governmental administration through this new school," according to the official announcement.

The many courses already given at Harvard in public finance, accounting, state and local government, economic theory, political theory, political parties, labor problems, law, business administration, state government and municipal government will be used by the school whenever desirable, but the school will operate as an individual unit with its own separate faculty, dean, budget, and equipment.

Aid From Government

The school will always emphasize close cooperation with government officials, it was stated. The entire enterprise is of such an unique nature that the faculty will be entering new educational territory in which no instructional data is now available anywhere and therefore it will be necessary for the faculty to proceed cautiously and to seek the advice of experienced government men frequently. The university officials realize, it was explained, that public administration, now broadening its activities into new fields of human endeavor, is creating a demand for a type of training different from that heretofore provided and it is this demand which the school will seek to fill.

Small Enrollment

The school will keep its enrollment small, not exceeding forty to seventy students during its first regular year of operation, it is anticipated, so that it will not turn out graduates for whom positions in the public service are not available. The students will be encouraged to look upon their future careers as an opportunity for service to the public, and the chief goal of the school will be to promote the public welfare by realistic means