Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey called it "misguided, discriminatory, superfluous, ineffective, futile." Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold forcefully agreed; so did Oberlin College's President William E. Stevenson. Object of their ire: the "disclaimer affidavit" in the loyalty provision of the federal Student Loan Program. Last week, joining at least 13 other colleges and universities, Harvard, Yale and Oberlin quit the loan program. Between them, they turned back about $476,000 in federal funds...
...language. This year the Government is lending $30 million to 1,365 schools (which add $1 for every $9 of U.S. money) to aid about 120,000 students. The trouble is one small clause: every borrower must not only 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., but 2) file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
...Avenue. These techniques include his fine large staff which creates an aura of organization and efficiency that permeates all his activities. The staff has seldom slipped. One of the times it did was in Providence, where Rockefeller, not knowing what he was talking about, hastily supported the student loyalty affidavit in the NDEA...
Conant admitted that the use of government funds might permit considerable "federal influence" in secondary education, but maintained that the present school situation ought to be improved. He cited the NDEA disclaimer affidavit as an example of this influence, repeating the generally-held objections to the restrictions on students' beliefs in the article...
...York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller yesterday declared that neither the loyalty oath nor the disclaimer affidavit provisions of the National Defense Education Act infringe on student rights...