Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objections to the loyalty oath provisions--particularly to the disclaimer affidavit--have been made clear time and again; they warrant only quick review now. The affidavit is obnoxious because it is a vaguely worded attempt to assure conformity to an officially "safe" norm of belief; because it singles out the academic community for suspicion of disloyalty and requires that students, unlike any other class of people, must reaffirm in writing that they are loyal; because it constitutes a dangerous Chauvinist precedent for any future federal aid to education acts; because, finally, it alienates the loyal while failing to protect...
Dean Elder proposed last week that Harvard lead a "large concert" of universities in pushing for legislative action to remove the disclaimer affidavit provision from the NDEA. At the same time, Senator Kennedy emphasized the need for effective protest at the student level. The Student Council has created a committee to study the question, and, although the exact purposes and plans of this group are unclear, the move is a step in the right direction...
...Democratic junior Senator from New Jersey told the CRIMSON yesterday that in his opinion the Kennedy-Clark bill to remove the loyalty oath affidavit and oath from the NDEA faces an unpromising future. Williams is a member of the Labor and Public Welfare committee to which the bill was referred last July...
...that time, the vote for recommittal was 49-42, on a compromise amendment by Senator Jacob K. Javits (R., N.Y.) which would have eliminated only the disclaimer affidavit and not the loyalty affirmation. For this reason, Williams sees little promise in the new Kennedy-Clark strategy of separating the two provisions and concentrating their attack on the disclaimer affidavit...
...came before the Harvard community in the form of the Memorial Church 'Controversy.' Both student body and faculty responded with dedicated fervor and concrete action. This year an issue of national and nearly unlimited concern has come before this community in the form of the attachment of a disclaimer affidavit and a loyalty oath to the NDEA funds. Harvard's response to this issue has been marked by its lack of fervor and action. That this apparent anomaly should exist suggests a reproachable peculiarity of the Harvard community and a breach of responsibility on the part of the Harvard CRIMSON...