Courses here "for training the kind of lads who want to plunge into the political swim, run for office, and rise to power and prestige by winning the votes of the electorate and out-smarting their competitors" were advocated last week in an editorial of the Cambridge Chronicle.
Citing Joseph A. Schumpeter, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, as an authority, the editorial said that democratic governments if they were to succeed required "office holders of sufficiently high quality."
"We wonder why Harvard...does not show a little realism and establish courses in practical political, where able young men from all walks of life could learn such essential details as how to raise money, conduct campaigns, get elected and stay elected..."
In the teaching of these courses, the editorial continued, "seasoned politicians and such low characters as newspapermen, press agents, and even Tammany district leaders should play a prominent part."
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