Word: musts
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...only conceivable reason for further participation in any of the NSF programs is that the University's money is not involved. But this is not, and should not be, the basis of the decision. Rather, it should be based on freedom of belief. Harvard must do everything in its power to ensure that inquiry into belief is not a concomitant of Federal aid to education...
This does not simply mean that Harvard must righteously refuse to touch forms with an affidavit of belief attached; the University must also refuse to participate in any program which includes such an affidavit. A decade ago it might have been possible to secure repeal of the NSF affidavit by lobbying, but past inaction has committed Harvard to taking a far stronger position if it wants the affidavit removed...
...take a moral stand against the affidavit, as the Faculty and the Administration have done, and then to imply that the affidavit is quite all right if the College does not have to administer it. If this noxious part of aid to education is to be eliminated, Harvard must refuse to participate in any program demanding such an affidavit, even those in which its only task is to distribute forms or lick a postage stamp...
...Justice must be tempered by realism. It would be profoundly unjust to prevent students already holding grants or fellowships from renewing them, for many have planned their education around these funds. But as long as the NSF affidavit remains, it will serve as a dangerous precedent. Any sort of participation in the NSF program at this time serves to support the very affirmation of belief which Harvard so vigorously protests...
...order for Statistics to be opened to undergraduate concentration, the committee's recommendations must be accepted by the Department Faculty and passed by the Committee on Educational Policy. Cochran's co-member, John W. Pratt, assistant professor of Statistics, said that "it is likely the plan can be devised and submitted to the CEP by spring, and go into effect in the fall." Both committee members agreed that the Department is "very interested" in making concentration in Statistics possible, either by itself or as part of a combined field...