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Secondly, Howe continued, the affidavit is a moral evil. "People engaged in education have the moral responsibility to keep their minds free," he said. Howe pointed out that, under the terms of the NDEA, the universities must contribute their own money to the fund, and are thus required to "place restrictions on the use of their own funds." The real issue, he declared, is "can the federal government dictate the terms of education as the result of an infernal inheritance from Senator Joe McCarthy...
...spring, President Pusey emphasized the complementary features of the University and the city. Harvard obviously has a deep interest in a healthy Cambridge, for any other climate could eventually be nothing but detrimental to the academic atmosphere. During the Program for Harvard College, Pusey said one goal of the fund-raising was "to attract to Cambridge a constellation of the world's great minds, making the banks of the Charles--from the research centers beyond M.I.T. at the southern extremity as far as Eliot House on the north--a world capital of knowledge and research." Without a flourishing city, this...
...Fund raisers for the Program for Harvard College must collect $12.5 million from wealthy alumni within the next two months to finish the program on schedule, the Completion Committee reported yesterday...
Regional leaders of the Completion Committee, according to Harris, its co-chairman, have expressed strong determination to finish their task by Christmas to allow graduate schools the chance to complete their own fund drives...
...pitch is that the U.S. cannot-and should not have to-carry singlehanded the burden of aid to the underdeveloped nations. At every possible opportunity, from President Eisenhower's recent trip to Europe to last month's meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the U.S. has been reminding the governments of Western Europe's booming nations that, as part of their contribution to the strengthening of the free world, they should shell out some aid too. By last week, declared a rueful European government official, the U.S. drive had reached "the arm-twisting stage...