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...NDEA represents a new era in the financing of American education, an era in which the bulk of financial aid to universities will be in the hands of non-academic authorities. No one who has followed the growing crisis in American universities--both public and private--for the past decade can deny that federal money will become more and more necessary to their survival. At the same time, no one concerned with academic freedom can fail to see the threat such aid poses. The NDEA disclaimer affidavit constitutes an unhealthy chauvinist precedent for government-university relations in this...
Because Harvard has failed for the moment to move Congress is no reason for Harvard to sell out. The University is one of the few institutions in the nation still wealthy enough to defy Congress on this kind of issue. Such wealth incurs responsibilities, and in the NDEA fight Harvard has inescapable obligations to that community, and to its own liberal conception of what future relations between the government and the colleges ought...
...harsh lessons of the past summer should have demonstrated once and for all that the legislative action Harvard hoped to promulgate by refusing $250,000 annually in NDEA funds is not forthcoming. The complete indifference of Congress to the issue, even though mighty Harvard thought it important, carried implications about the College's importance that may be hard for some officials and faculty to swallow, although renewed discussion of the NDEA indicates that many are willing to try a bite...
Basically, the University's 1959 decision to withdraw from the NDEA program has proved only that this is no longer the dramatic era of the McCarthy inquisitions, and that all eyes are not focused on pompous old Harvard. True, Kennedy et al. went to Harvard, and all sorts of people, from a candy maker in Belmont to a small-time landlady in New Jersey, have exclaimed over that. But the harsh truth seems to be that, in the halls of Congress where laws are hammered out, nobody cares what Harvard thinks...
...provision. Last summer was supposed to be the climax of the great crusade, but nothing happened. President Kennedy, once a strong foe of the affidavit, evidently had more pressing concerns on his mind and had forgotten. Congress never gave the matter a second thought as it renewed the entire NDEA package for two years. And it is sheer wishful thinking to hope that something will happen next time. For the issues that obscured the NDEA last summer--aid to parochial schools, aid to segregated schools, and international uneasiness--are very likely to crop up again two years hence...