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According to Section 1001 (f) of the National Defense Education Act, a student is not eligible for a Title II loan--or for any other NDEA payment unless...
President Pusey said after the meeting that there was "no identifiable support for changing the University's policy." In November 1959, the Corporation--after a concurring vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--announced that Harvard would withdraw from the NDEA program in protest over inclusion of a loyalty oath and disclaimer affidavit...
...anyway, why should anything have happened? Why should anyone care whether or not Harvard is in the NDEA program? Congress doesn't need Harvard to lead other colleges and universities to the till; there are plenty of takers. Harvard, which has always had a hard time identifying itself as a leader in the anti-NDEA movement (since 11 schools left the program before the University made up its mind), is accomplishing nothing by its quixotic stance...
...University could, however, do a great deal. It could show other rich, powerful institutions with qualms about the NDEA a way to use Federal funds while still making their point. With its ample resources, Harvard could accept the NDEA funds for the great majority of scholarship applicants who would have no second thoughts about signing the affidavit, and still promise to subsidize from its own coffers those students who morally object...
...acts as Harvard has. No one who is really subversive would balk at signing the affidavit, and most other students would not let it deter them from the chance for a Harvard education. Thus, only a very few, with exceptionally heightened moral sensitivities, would be discriminated against if the NDEA were operative. But when it is not, it discriminates against all who would use it, in perfect conscience, for the advancement of their education...