Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Teachers' Union stepped into the NROTC loyalty oath controversy yesterday with a statement that the oath was "contrary to the principles of academic freedom." The Union's resolution also concluded that the Navy's loyalty check "is a University matter...
...stool pigeon clause" of the oath, requiring that NROTC students report the names of any persons they have seen at gatherings of certain "subversive" organizations, will be the focus of the questions asked, according to Henry M. Silveira, Jr. '51, co-Chairman of the Council committee investigating the oaths...
Navy Judge Advocate General George L. Russell will be asked what is done with this information on non-Navy students, and what happens to the oath documents themselves...
Organizations referred to by the oath are those classified as subversive by the Attorney General last year. Since Harvard groups never use national names, none of them are listed specifically. "But it is clear that some of them, may be associated with these national 'subversive' groups," the HLU president said...
...Liberal Union brief recommended that the Council find out what relation the oath has to Harvard organizations, and what the scope of its effects will be on non-Navy students who are affiliated, however slightly, with the groups...