Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatively innocuous affirmation--Kennedy hopes to avoid the confusion which aided his opponents in last summer's debate. "I just cannot understand," said Senator Styles Bridges, for example, "why these young people--yes, and their august teachers also--would not deem it a privilege to take this oath...
Questions of complexity alone seem to weaken the test-case method as practical procedure. Pressure for favorable legislation and the moral example of refusing funds thus seem the best form of opposition to the loyalty oath. It is perhaps not generally realized that, when the University demands the removal of the affidavit from the NDEA, it is fighting to lift the loyalty provision from both the loans, which it itself administers, and from the grants, which the government awards directly. Although the University would not be compromised if government scholarships alone were encumbered by loyalty affidavits, it should still persist...
...faculty of Amherst College has voted unanimous disapproval of the controversial disclaimer oath ... and recommended to the Trustees of the College that Amherst accept no further Federal loan funds until the disclaimer is no longer required...
Members of the Faculty of Bowdoin College have adopted resolutions in which they urge amendments of the NDEA by the removal of a section which requires participants under the Act to execute a so-called "disclaimer oath" and affidavit, believing it to be an infringement of academic freedom...
...requirement of the oath in the NDEA seems to us to present completely different problems. Allegiance is a necessary accompaniment of citizenship. The usual form for the expression of such allegiance is by oath. The oath in the NDEA is such an oath in its traditional form. To require such an oath is the right of the government. We believe, however, that it is useless and invidious to require it on this occasion, useless because disloyalty is not eliminated by formalities, and invidious since it selects the beneficiaries of government assistance in one area and not in others. We therefore...