Word: ndea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall brought a reawakening of the NDEA controversy, in which Harvard palyed an important role--probably its most important role in educational affairs at the national level for many years to come. The history of the National Defense Education Act dates back to November of 1959, when Harvard rejected a Federal grant of over $3,50,000. The College objected to a requirement that all persons intending to use the money had to sign an affidavit disclaiming belief in any subversive organization...
After an unsuccessful campaign last summer to have the affidavit repealed, several persons in the Harvard community wondered whether the original stand on NDEA should not, in fact, be reversed and the money accepted. But a virtually unanimous vote in the Faculty, taken this past October, indicated that the overall sentiment was still for refusing the funds...
...NDEA vote slipped into the past, the University turned its attention to another problem of widespread concern -- should it built a bomb shelter? There were two basic areas of controversy: first what sort of fall-out or blast shelter facilities were economically and technically feasible; second, and more important in the minds of many, what would be the effect on the nation if Harvard, an institution supposedly in close tough with the White House, should suddenly announce plans for atomic war? President Pusey appointed a committee to study the problem; the evenutal decision was to build no new facilities...
...Dodds mentions this part of the job parenthetically). Indeed, the accomplishments of Nathan Pusey's tenure, by no means unimpressive, are not startling new departures, but courageous and competent responses: the amazing repair of the Divinity School, the staunch defense of academic freedom when threatened by McCarthyism and the NDEA; holding the Ivy League together during trying times; launching and completing a gigantic capital funds drive when Harvard and higher education needed the shot in the arm: "building high" when urban crowdedness demanded it; alerting this university and others to the dangers of Federal aid; recognizing the new international character...
...addition to the four NDEA-sponsored centers, a number of colleges and universities have miniature Africa programs. A CRIMSON survey of 77 educational institutions revealed that 46 of them offer at least one course on Africa. Only 18 offer more than one course, however, and outside of the government-supported centers not more than two or three have the capacity for language instruction...