Word: ndea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Applicants for loans under the 1958 NDEA act wid still have to take an oath of loyalty to the United States, but they will no longer have to sign an affidavit disclaiming membership in, belief in, or support, of any subversive organization...
Instead of the controversial affidavit, the new law provides criminal penalties for any member of a subversive organization who applies for and receives an NDEA loan...
Passed in the wake of Sputniks I and II, NDEA sought to provide much needed funds for education in an era of rapidly rising costs. Its program embraced loans to students and grants for specific projects to universities...
...note in the CRIMSON of September 28 your statement that after Harvard refused NDEA loans other colleges followed suit, namely Yale, Princeton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Amherst, and Reed. For the sake of the facts I should like to point out that several of these colleges rejected the NDEA program months before Harvard. Lawrence Wylie, Acting Master of Quincy House...
...Congress have held a position of impossible intransigeance toward each other for too long. The key issue of belief is gone; the substitute is a legitimate request. It is very much to be hoped not only that the House will agree, but also that the colleges will accept the NDEA compromise in cheerful spirit. If anyone is to decide that the substitute provision is obnoxious, let it this time be the students themselves...