Word: harvard
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Operating under the Commission on Extension Course, the television series marks the latest expansion of the Harvard extension program...
...first time residents in the Boston-Cambridge area can receive course credit toward a Harvard degree by following a series of television lectures. Robert G. Albion, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, last night conducted the premiere of the new program over WGBH-TV, Channel...
...credit toward the degree Adjunct in Arts, viewers must attend several conferences and take mid-term and final examinations in addition to following the television lessons. Both the conferences and examinations will be at Harvard...
...loyalty is suspect; third, the affidavit is dangerously vague and demands that applicants for funds must have beliefs that conform to an undefined and variable norm of safe political thinking. Finally, the affidavit and oath serve as dangerous precedent for burdening future governmental aid to education with political strictures. Harvard has rightly decided that these obnoxious features of the loyalty oath preclude acceptance of the government's funds...
...legislative action would remove the affidavit requirement, it accepted the funds; but since this hope has at least temporarily vanished, strategy has had to be changed. Obviously, the University, as well as other schools and academic associations should support new legislation that attempts to remove the oath. Last year, Harvard's ambivalent attitude was cited in Congress as a part of an argument that the loyalty oath was acceptable to even the best schools; but clear support of measures to remove the oath, coupled with a firm refusal to accept funds so long as it is required, should make Harvard...