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...issue in the case, Pusey explained, is not whether the University should fire Bowles, but whether the Corporation should disregard the laws of the Commonwealth. In this instance, Pusey added, the University does not feel there is warrant for ignoring...
...until constitutional issues raised in the M.I.T. suit are settled. Harvard had nothing to lose by quietly honoring Bowles's request for a postponement until that suit is adjudicated. Sargent Kennedy, Secretary to the Corporation, has insisted that Harvard "had no choice but to obey the laws of the Commonwealth." Yet he has admitted that a college or university cannot be prosecuted if one of its teachers refuses to sign the oath; the University would not have been liable if it had held off until the fall, when the M.I.T. case will be heard...
...requirement of an affirmation on loyalty represented a politically inspired interference with the independence of the University. By its hasty actions in this case, the University has unwittingly supported a statute that singles out teachers as a group whose loyalties are particularly suspect. Harvard has acknowledged that the Commonwealth can tamper freely with its affairs. This is absolutely contrary to the University's usual defense of its Faculty's autonomy...
...University need not have battled the Commonwealth to register its disapproval of an oath many of its Faculty members resent. Moral courage was not required of the Corporation. It would seem that if the Corporation had wished to remain noncommittal over the oath, to avoid a brouhaha, it need only have agreed to wait for M.I.T...
...lack of a market for the long-range, rear-engined VC 10. Though popular with passengers, the VC 10 is costlier to operate than the competitive Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, and Britain has failed so far to sell a single one of them outside the Commonwealth...