Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refusing to accept Federal funds under a "loyalty oath" provision while mouthing platitudes on academic freedom, the Trustees of Amherst College last week rejected a $1340 grant received under the student loan program of the National Defense Education Act. Their action dramatizes wide-spread objection to the clause requiring every...
Though defenders of liberal education are as strongly opposed to subversion as Senator Mundt, who introduced this provision, the "loyalty oath" remains an unattractive monument to misguided patriotism. In the first place, a genuine subversive would have no compunctions about signing such an oath, thereby rendering the provision powerless to...
Such a loosely defined prohibition can only stiffle the spirit of free inquiry and discussion; it can only lead to fear and hesitancy in the academic community. This is not to say that professors and others should not take care to support only groups that work for what they believe...
Dunster House calls Duet "Two plays for music," apparently indicating that the nature of Arthur Kopit's dramas makes a special provision for more music than the average play allows; i.e., more than a few atmospheric preludes. Well, there is more music than that, but anyone who expects a quasi...
Beyond the Summit. From Yalta in 1945 to Geneva in 1955. the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have made over-the-conference-table agreements. A "major missing element in our agreements with the Soviet leaders has been any provision as to how disputes about the meaning of the agreements could be...