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Americans for Democratic Action, in a letter to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, has accused the Navy of imitating "Communist totalitarian policies and devices" in requiring NROTC students to sign a 'stool pigeon" loyalty certificate, it was learned last night. The letter was partially initiated by a Liberal Union appeal to the ADA for national action on the "informer clause" in the oath administered to the Harvard Naval Science students...
Captain Carroll T. Bonney, professor of Naval Science, plans to tell the Chief of Naval Personnel about sympathies expressed at yesterday's meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "The general opinion was that the so-called stool-pigeon clause should be omitted from the certificate in its application to Harvard students," Bonney said last night...
...NROTC students were required this year by order of Matthews to sing a certificate stating their loyalty to the United States. Included in the paper was the "informer" or "stool-pigeon" clause, which requires the student to name all persons he has ever seen at meetings of certain allergy subversive organization...
Faculty opinion was not adverse to the certificate as such, he said, but "only to the so-called stool pigeon clause...
...time, other colleges began to agree. By last week, as 65-year-old Harry Carman reached the retirement age for "deaning," Columbia's three-legged stool had been copied on campuses throughout the U.S. "Let's not forget Montaigne's admonition," Carman once advised: "'The object of education is to make, not a scholar, but a man.' " If U.S. colleges had begun to make less lopsided men, it was partly because of Dean Carman...