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...field of non-government aid, Bender found occasional "overtones of public relations, propaganda, self-aggrandizement or corporate recruiting." Although he called increased Federal aid a "social imperative for our kind of society," he warned of attempts to "limit freedom of inquiry and expression," offering the NDEA loyalty provision as an "ominous note...
...Council also passed, unanimously and with little debate, the revised report on NDEA, written by David Balabanian '60, James Perry '63, and Frank. The report emphasizes the need for Federal aid but objects strongly to the disclaimer affidavit and expressed milder disapproval of the loyalty oath...
Harvard is a liberal school. Anyone will tell you that. For instance, one Harvard committee is so liberal that it recommends that the College refuse to accept tainted NDEA funds from the United States government. In fact, the students don't have to go to class, or even come in on time after dates. Harvard is indeed a liberal school...
Attacking the issue of Federal aid, it continues, "We find it necessary to affirm our belief in the desirability and, indeed, the absolute necessity of Federal aid to American higher education." The objectionable provisions in the NDEA, the report points out, are not "inevitable concomitants of Federal monies...
Outlining further the "tactical reasons" for both accepting and rejecting NDEA money, the report concludes that Harvard "is pre-eminently qualified to lead the fight" against the loyalty provisions and that it should decline funds under the Act until the affidavit is repealed...