Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's freezing of the funds before it was prepared to refuse them gave an appearance of indecision, but the 8-0 CEP vote should help prove that Harvard intends to take a strong stand. The Faculty vote on Tuesday must reflect similar unanimity if Harvard's influence is to be important in the fight. Even a unanimous vote for withdrawal, however, will not conclude the University's obligations...
...accusations and defenses. On one side, it was reasoned that a university which includes members of many different religions should not officially embrace one to the exclusion of others; and some held further that it was not within the function of the contemporary Harvard to take any formal stand whatsoever concerning religion. The opponents of this view contended that commitment to religion necessitated the choosing of one, that just as a church can not be treated as a "cafeteria," as one professor described it, neither can Harvard be religious, abstractly, without carrying this belief into practice through one particular religion...
According to Oliver, President Pusey has asked each of the faculties to submit an opinion of the oath, the consensus of which will determine the Administration's stand. "By sending our analysis to the individual faculties," Oliver explained, "we hope to influence their reports, as well as that of the combined Administration...
...Student Council committee to study the NDEA loyalty oath will probably report back to the Council on Monday, Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61, chairman of the committee, said last night. Although the group has already decided what its stand on the issue will be, Oliver said he felt it "inadvisable" to express any opinion before Monday...
...office. "We are already very tired of so many threats," said Diario in a front-page editorial, "of so many unjust and gratuitous accusations." Diario went on to a withering analysis of freedom under Castro: "Public figures may say one thing in private but on the speaker's stand they say something else. That is not freedom of expression but terror and adulation . . . The idea has been created that everyone who disagrees is an undesirable element." This kind of liberty, said Diario, is like a garden with the sign: "Enter-but beware of dogs." Added Avance Columnist Agustin Tamargo...