Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University, Byse recommended, should try to get the National Science Foundation and other Health, Education, and Welfare departments to administer their own "affidavits of disbelief." If this course of action fails, the Administration should refuse to process the applications...
After months of official indecision, the Corporation has withdrawn from the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act, and given substance to Harvard's protest to the required Affidavit of Disbelief. In itself, the withdrawal is commendable, but it is both overdue and incomplete. For, if the NDEA affidavit is "lamentable and dangerous," as President Pusey has said, the identical loyalty requirement in the National Science Foundation Act is equally deserving of University rejection...
...addition, the faculty expressed its "strong hope" that Harvard, in association with other universities, will "explore every possible means, and take appropriate action, towards seeking removal of Affidavits of Disbelief and Loyalty Oaths as a condition of Federal support...
...affidavit and oath requirements were removed; and a second--echoing President Pusey's position before he froze the University's NDEA funds last September--that the Corporation "continue to cooperate in the administration of Federal programs aiding education, including those which require a Loyalty Oath and Affidavit of Disbelief...
...Algeria, Debre insisted that the De Gaulle government had no intention of entering into political negotiations with the rebels, only the desire to "get out of the cycle of violence in which Algeria is locked, and to re-enter the reign of law." But there were thunderous hoots of disbelief from right-wing diehards, who were determined to stymie De Gaulle's plan for Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). Most of the deputies from Algeria boycotted the session, and the Gaullist U.N.R. Party was shaken by the angry resignation of nine right-wingers, who considered any concessions-even...