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This indecisive planning cannot be blamed entirely on the planners of Twentieth Century Week--such waverings between over-ambitiousness and over-conservatism are implicit in practically any such undergraduate enterprise. Nor are they fully responsible for the program's failure to attract wide-spread undergraduate interest. For they ran into serious trouble in attempting to raise funds and acquire whole-hearted support from the Harvard administration, causing them to narrow greatly the scope of their plans...
...teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination? Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to overlook the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...
...teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination?" Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to over look the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...
Although many of Admiral Strauss' most controversial activities stemmed from honest and respectable convictions, his tactics in support of these convictions have been those of the shyster. The wide-spread opposition to Strauss among physicists stems not only from antagonism to his beliefs, but also--and in the main--from a fear of his methods. In a position to make decisions of the greatest importance to the United States and the world, Strauss constantly refused to make the public a party to any of the broad policy arguments which he arbitrated. His abhorrence for candor is his major fault...
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 loan applicant to file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional means...