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tions, fully expected to participate as well as learn, to contribute as
well as observe.

Finally, the State should develop a special wing of the Graduate
Corps, which would approximate in broad principle the "Upward
Bound" program—the most widely acclaimed project of the War on
Poverty—or the Federal government's special summer work-experience
program for political science and public administration students. The
objective here is solely exposure and the development of incentive.
By enabling talented students to experience firsthand the dynamics of
government, the hope is to induce those contemplating, but not com-
mitted, to choose an academic major which would equip them for a
future vocation in public service.

The potential of the Graduate Corps is virtually limitless. It could
be extended to the city and county governments, thereby providing ex-
citing opportunities to participate in the extensive challenges of urban,
metropolitan and regional affairs. Private and civic organizations
whose business is directly related with governmental action such as
the Maryland Municipal League, the County Commissioners Associa-
tion, Allied Civic Group, the Greater Baltimore Committee and the
Citizens' Planning and Housing Associations should also consider mak-
ing apprenticeship positions available.

Private, profit-oriented industry has found its investment in execu-
tive training programs to be extremely worthwhile. I can think of no
better investment for government. I believe that a Graduate Corps is
a program for today; a practical method of improving the quality of
state and local government. It provides a nonpolitical, professional,
career-oriented approach towards public service; one that would give
the most qualified and sincere students the stimulation, the inspiration
and the opportunity to serve.

Above all we shall have presented the opportunity to graduates when
their minds are most receptive, and exposed them to challenge during
their most impressionable years. For many men and women, inspira-
tion and opportunity come later in life. And for government, that is
sometimes too late.

In my earlier years, I thought it was enough to try to be a good
lawyer, a husband and father, to provide for my family and to strike
up a few solid and enduring friendships. It was enough, I thought,
to do an honest day's work, and to receive the fair rewards of my labor.
The world wasn't strange to me. I knew a bit of its hardship growing