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Suddenly and quietly, the giant armadillo that threw college administrators into confused indignance for some three years is dead--or at least half dead. The college faculties, among them Harvard's, had denounced the disclaimer affidavit provision in the government's student loan program as an "obnoxious" clause singling out educational institutions as special objects of suspicion...
...prickly instance is the "disclaimer affidavit"-a negative loyalty oath-that students must sign to get federal loans under the National Defense Education Act. Worse is the 15% ceiling on "indirect costs" incurred by universities conducting research under Government grants. In doing research for the National Institutes of Health, says Pusey, Harvard's indirect costs are about 28.5% of direct costs. Last year it spent an extra $1,000,000 out of its own pocket. Harvard and other universities are thus being forced to underwrite federal research...
...level for many years to come. The history of the National Defense Education Act dates back to November of 1959, when Harvard rejected a Federal grant of over $3,50,000. The College objected to a requirement that all persons intending to use the money had to sign an affidavit disclaiming belief in any subversive organization...
...College argued; but a disclaimer of belief was more than the government could rightfully ask, John U. Munro, 34, Dean of the College, expressed the feeling of many persons when he described the measure as "thought control." John F. Kennedy, 40 then a Massachusetts Senator, said the disclaimer affidavit was "worse than futile"; he felt subversives would not hesitate to sign it and that loyal citizens would feet insulted, perhaps even alienated...
After an unsuccessful campaign last summer to have the affidavit repealed, several persons in the Harvard community wondered whether the original stand on NDEA should not, in fact, be reversed and the money accepted. But a virtually unanimous vote in the Faculty, taken this past October, indicated that the overall sentiment was still for refusing the funds...