The United States Government was urged yesterday by a national conference of college officials here to bar financial aid to colleges and universities which practice racial or religious discrimination.
A resolution to that effect was approved, 82 to 64, by delegates to the Seventeenth National Conference on Higher Education. Most of the 1, 700 college officials attending the conference stayed away from the session which adopted the resolution.
A floor fight against the proposal was made by David H. B. Martin, assistant to the provost of Yale University. Emphasizing he was speaking only as an individual, he termed the resolution a “shotgun approach” which was “undesirable, vague and with a goal impossible to obtain.”
The proposal would affect thousands of Federal research grants, fellowships, scholar-ships agricultural extension aid, the Reserve Officers Training Program, the student loan program, and payments to land grant colleges.
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