Word: ndea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprise move, the Senate voted yesterday to repeal the disclaimer affadavit--but not the loyalty oath--required under the National Defense Education Act. Harvard has long objected to the affadavit, and in protest withdrew from the NDEA program in November...
Section 1001 (f) of the NDEA Act provides that to be eligible for grants, or for loans administered through their university, applicants must first disclaim membership in, belief in, or support of subversive organizations; and second, affirm their allegiance to the United States and its Constitutional system...
...President Pusey's continued opposition to the loyalty provisions, the University has refused NDEA loans since November 18, 1959. At that time the Corporation voted to reject $357,873 of Federal funds assigned to Harvard. Following suit, Yale, Princeton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Amherst, Roed, and other colleges withdraw from the program...
November 4, 1959, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to recommend refusal of NDEA funds. After more than four hours of debate at two meetings, the Faculty made its decision on a voice vote. The next day the Graduate School of Education, which needed the funds the most, "very strongly supported" withdrawal from NDEA...
Thereafter, Pusey urged the then Senator John F. Kennedy '40 to oppose the loyalty oath provisions, but Kennedy failed in two attempts to get the affadavit repealed. Pusey reopened Faculty debate on NDEA; the Faculty voted virtually unanimously to recommend continued refusal of NDEA funds. Pusey said after the October 3, 1961 meeting that there was "no identifiable support for changing the University's policy...