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This does not simply mean that Harvard must righteously refuse to touch forms with an affidavit of belief attached; the University must also refuse to participate in any program which includes such an affidavit. A decade ago it might have been possible to secure repeal of the NSF affidavit by lobbying, but past inaction has committed Harvard to taking a far stronger position if it wants the affidavit removed...
...only inconsistent, but hypocritical to take a moral stand against the affidavit, as the Faculty and the Administration have done, and then to imply that the affidavit is quite all right if the College does not have to administer it. If this noxious part of aid to education is to be eliminated, Harvard must refuse to participate in any program demanding such an affidavit, even those in which its only task is to distribute forms or lick a postage stamp...
This question concerns tactics as well as strategy. Even members of the Administration have said that Harvard has no excuse for opposing the loyalty affidavit as long as it accepts the NSF fellowships. Furthermore, if the NSF oath is ever to be repealed, the change will have to be part of a larger crusade, for, by itself, the NSF issue is of little importance to most of the country...
Justice must be tempered by realism. It would be profoundly unjust to prevent students already holding grants or fellowships from renewing them, for many have planned their education around these funds. But as long as the NSF affidavit remains, it will serve as a dangerous precedent. Any sort of participation in the NSF program at this time serves to support the very affirmation of belief which Harvard so vigorously protests...
Despite its lack of sufficient scholarship funds, Sarah Lawrence was one of the first colleges to refuse the government loans offered under the National Defense Education Act, because of the attached loyalty affidavit...