Word: loan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University, while registering strong opposition to the requirement of loyalty oaths for students, has accepted loan funds under the Act and administered the oath to students. At least twelve other colleges and universities, such as Amherst, Haverford, and Swarthmore, have turned down loan funds rather than administer the oaths...
Harvard's participation in the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act, in the face of the Act's "loyalty oath" requirement, seems again to be a likely source of concern for President Pusey, the Administration, and the Faculty...
Sometime this week, a committee from the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors will see President Pusey to inquire whether he favors the University's continued participation in the loan program now that Senator Kennedy's bill to remove the loyalty oath has failed...
Since it is almost certain that at least a large portion of the new grants would be allocated to other Schools, more vocal faculty concern with Harvard's participation in the loan program would seem to be indicated. "With the failure of Senator Kennedy's bill, the matter again is becoming one for faculty debate, rather than administrative detail," one highly placed University officer has stated...
Last year the University agreed to accept loan monies offered under the NDEA and to administer the required oath to students requesting loans, in order to applaud and encourage "the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the ... Act." But President Pusey, in a letter supporting Senator Kennedy's bill to abolish the oath requirement, also called the oath "rude and unworthy of Congress," "a direct personal affront" to the colleges, and urged that Kennedy's committee recommend the "elimination of this odious section...