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...headline over an article on President William C. Pels of Bennington reads "Fels's Naptha" [July 6]. Maybe that's the way they spell Naphtha at small, rural, private Bennington, but it wasn't the way they spelled it at small, rural, private Bryn Mawr. Have I caught TIME napphing...
...loyalty oath" were merely ineffective, a growing list of major colleges--including Bryn Mawr, Harvard, Haverford, Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Swarthmore and Yale--would not have protested so strongly. The real danger is that the required affidavit constitutes an inquiry into vaguely defined associations and beliefs. To secure his loan, an applicant must swear that he does not "believe in" any organization that "believes in" certain programs. But the Act provides no objective criteria, nor can it, for judging what beliefs are "subversive." In its most dangerous implication, the "loyalty oath" requires a blanket rejection of participation, or belief...
...University has wisely steered a middle path in the current controversy over the loyalty oath provision attached to the Student Loan Program under the National Defense Education Act. Rejecting the extreme stand of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore--which refused to apply for funds restricted by the oath--the University has followed the course of accepting the money while pressing for the oath's abolition...
...Seven College Conference, composed of Radcliffe, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, and Vassar, began planning the radio documentary last fall...
...week's end, six schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Antioch, Princeton, Swarthmore and Reed-had refused to accept money under the act. Other schools are accepting funds but protesting the oaths. Presidents Nathan Pusey of Harvard and A. Whitney Griswold of Yale praised Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Arthur Flemming for criticizing the oaths, and Griswold wrote: "In our eyes, such measures are at best odious symbols, at worst a potential threat to our profession . . . Belief cannot be coerced or compelled." Other institutions whose heads object to the provision: Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, the University of Wisconsin and Atlanta...