Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attacking the issue of Federal aid, it continues, "We find it necessary to affirm our belief in the desirability and, indeed, the absolute necessity of Federal aid to American higher education." The objectionable provisions in the NDEA, the report points out, are not "inevitable concomitants of Federal monies...
...against the "loyalty oath," and the obvious widespread student agreement with the same indicate an unusually common attitude toward the current issue. There is no controversy as there was two years ago and, consequently no real action. That is to say that since we all individually believe in, and affirm the rightness of opposition to the loyalty oath, we feel that our personal moral responsibilities have been met. But does not a social life entail social responsibilities--even for Harvard students? That a majority (as measured by Congressional action) of the nation outside of Harvard is in solid support...
...administer federal funds for educational assistance until policy on the required "loyalty oaths" is thoroughly reconsidered, the University has acted wisely and honorably. Harvard is wealthy enough to be principled; and there is strong justification for its stand against the affidavit which every recipient of the federal funds must affirm...
Perhaps the key to a full understanding of these Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates who will not affirm the existence of God, considered as a group, lies in the fact that about 85 per cent of them will not deny His existence, either--that is, they are predominantly agnostics who look equally askance at the theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept...
...Union." Among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one. And the group of 215 who chose war included over four-fifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality of the soul (all but fourteen persons), while 35 per cent of the non-believers took the opposite stand in favor of surrender...