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...NDEA student loan program, pending removal of the affidavit. Then, at his press conference last week, President Eisenhower--although deploring the withdrawal of Harvard, Yale and other institutions--indicated that he understood their objections. He said that he favors repeal of the affidavit and retention only of the oath of allegiance...
Although Eisenhower, patriot that he is, declares his willingness to swear every morning that he is not a Communist, he feels that the universities have a right to resent being "singled out" as a group of potential subversives. He regards a basic citizenship oath as sufficient...
...part of the whole affair is the fact that Van Doren lied, and lied under oath. When he finally realized that he was caught in his lies, then, and then only, did he confess that he had made what he called a human mistake, and gave a maudlin explanation...
...colleges is the suggestion, however unintentional, that students (specifically needy and able ones) are more suspect than other citizens, such as farmers or businessmen, who get much fatter federal subsidies, with no requirement for declaiming their loyalty. Moreover, the colleges ask, what Communist ever hesitated to sign an oath...
...spring of 1936, during the preparation for the Tercentenary Celebration, an attempted repeal of the oath failed in the House of Representatives. Mather, along with other members of the Faculty such as Max Lerner and F. O. Matthiessen, formed the Harvard University chapter of the American Federation of Teachers...