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Statements yesterday by President Pusey left little doubt that the University will soon be receiving funds under the NDEA student-loan program...
...Tuesday's Faculty meeting, the basis for discussion was commentary from Pusey and Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, on the fact that applicants for government loans under the National Defense Education Act will no longer have to disclaim belief in any subversive organization. The NDEA program still asks that students swear they have never been members of a subversive organization, but Howe explained that this request is not as overbearing as if sounds...
...surprise move, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the disclaimer affidavit - but not the loyalty oath - required under the National Defense Education Act. Harvard has long objected to the affidavit, and led by President Pusey, withdrew from the NDEA program in November...
Elimination of the disclaimer requirement both decreases and amplifies old problems for the College. The new supply of NDEA and NSF funds will increase available financial assistance, shifting the responsibility for decisions of conscience from the College to the individual. At the same time, the embrace between Harvard and the Federal government will close a notch tighter as students and educational programs come to depend on grants from Washington...
Even though NDEA and NSF funds are still specified as "not for subversives," the new form of the specification permits the University to change its attitude toward the government from fixed, rigid rejection to a more flexible relation. The new law, although it creates problems, increases the freedom of the University and of individuals in the University to react intelligently toward individual offers of assistance from the government. As an increase in that freedom, the new law, and its energetic support from the White House, deserve to be hailed...