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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...
...community in the form of the Memorial Church 'Controversy.' Both student body and faculty responded with dedicated fervor and concrete action. This year an issue of national and nearly unlimited concern has come before this community in the form of the attachment of a disclaimer affidavit and a loyalty oath to the NDEA funds. Harvard's response to this issue has been marked by its lack of fervor and action. That this apparent anomaly should exist suggests a reproachable peculiarity of the Harvard community and a breach of responsibility on the part of the Harvard CRIMSON...
...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...