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Petitions urging revision of the NROTC loyalty certificate will circulate in all college and graduate school dining halls tonight, Elmer M. Harmon '51, secretary to a joint committee of eight sponsoring organizations, announced last night...
Pledging continued opposition to all features of the NROTC loyalty certificate, the Young Progressives last night voted endorsement of the joint student organization resolution condemning the oath's "informer clause...
...Tuesday meeting, the Faculty had called up Captain Carroll T. Bonney to explain the interpretation and application of the oath at Harvard, and before the afternoon was over, the Faculty had instructed its NROTC head to tell the Navy in Washington that Harvard's teachers think the "informer clause" should be stricken from the certificate. Such an expression carries so much weight that a three month campaign of many groups and individuals toward the removal of the "informer clause" may soon be very successfully concluded...
Tuesday's Faculty action still leaves several questions unanswered, however, and the Faculty and the Corporation would both do well to take note. Simply striking out the "informer clause" will not settle the other problems raised by the NROTC certificate...
...organizations listed as subversive, is he himself guilty of holding every view that particular organization nourishes? Second, on the Harvard level, if the certificate is usually administered to incoming students, one might think it would pertain only to a pre-Harvard background; but will NROTC students later be asked to renew their certificates as a check on what they have done since coming to College? Finally, shouldn't there at least be a set of criteria for any future widening of the list of organizations considered as "subversive?" None exist...