Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In 1958 when the government passed the NDEA, it recognized Washington's long-debated need to provide federal aid to private education. But because of the "loyalty oath" provision in the Act, another debate began--over an issue presumably long settled: private education without government interference.
The provision requires that any person accepting funds file an affidavit disclaiming belief, membership in, and support of "any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or violence, or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods."
Harvard pictured itself in 1959 as a glorious leader, showing other, less powerful, less enlightened schools the way out of the wilderness of federal control. President Pusey testified several times in Washington as part of a massive effort on the part of the enlightened schools to prod Congress into repealing...
Besides, the affidavit provision only discriminates against students when a university acts as Harvard has. No one who is really subversive would balk at signing the affidavit, and most other students would not let it deter them from the chance for a Harvard education. Thus, only a very few, with...
> "A sensible plan of balance among agriculture, industry, transport, power, communications, with such provision for housing, education and medical services as resources permit.