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...September, 1959, the Faculty voted overwhelmingly to refuse $250,000 annually in Federal loan funds because of the disclaimer affidavit provisions...
...provision requires that any person accepting funds file an affidavit disclaiming belief, membership in, and support of "any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or violence, or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
McCloskey also warned about the danger of "not deciding the issue on its own merits." He stressed that the Faculty must base its decision primarily on the moral question of the disclaimer affidavit...
...answer to that difficult question must be yes. Whatever the cost, whatever the outcome, the University must stand firm. It must continue its opposition to the affidavit because there are compelling moral arguments against it, arguments which circumstances cannot alter; because the outcome of the affidavit controversy will affect the future of all plans for federal aid to universities; and because the political battle against the affidavit it not yet lost...
Once again, the National Defense Education Act is an issue at Harvard. The University's two-year campaign to remove the Act's obnoxious affidavit has failed. And,while President Pusey's opposition to the disclaimer has not changed, political and economic circumstances have. Very properly, then, the President is taking the matter before the Faculty in today's meeting: his question is whether Harvard should continue what may be a losing fight...