Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University has wisely steered a middle path in the current controversy over the loyalty oath provision attached to the Student Loan Program under the National Defense Education Act. Rejecting the extreme stand of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore--which refused to apply for funds restricted by the oath--the University has followed the course of accepting the money while pressing for the oath's abolition...
Coupled with the distaste felt by many towards Federal money in the field of education due to the danger of possible regulation, the piddling sum involved, only $25,000 this year, has led many observers to question the wisdom of the University entangling itself in the Federal program. Under the present act, they point out, the most money the University, including all the Graduate schools, can receive is $250,000, a relatively insignificant sum in a loan program where $400,000 in long term notes was issued by the College alone...
There is little dispute over the need for widescale use of loans to students, nor of the excellent quality of the National Defense Student Loan Program. It provides low interest loans up to $1,000 a year repayable over ten years following completion of a student's studies. Particularly noteworthy is the arrangement whereby public school teachers need only repay half the loan. Officials estimate 90,000 students will participate in the seven year program...
Obnoxious as the oath is, with its concealed threat to academic freedom and its latent McCarthyism, the Pennsylvania schools' complete rejection of the beneficial aspects of the program results merely in cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. A more reasonable course for the University is to accept the Federal funds and to provide its own loan funds for students who object to the oath. There is no reason why the University can not pray for repeal with one hand while accepting the cold cash with the other...
...Russian and Slavic Studies program of "extraordinary range and strength" will highlight this year's Summer School offerings, Thomas E. Crooks '49, assistant director of the School, stated yesterday...