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...Reprinted form the summer issue of the AAUP Bulletin. Mr. McArthur is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont...
Seymour E. Harris '20, president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the group that first opposed the loyalty oath requirement, reiterated the AAUP's dislike of the proposal, but he thought that the University would "probably take the money...
...maintain that such laws single out members of a specific professional group for unwarranted suspicion, but do not ever accomplish the purpose they seek. True subversives, of course, will have no qualms about signing a loyalty oath, but loyal citizens who sign are then open to what the AAUP characterizes as "the possibility of perjury prosecutions resting on vague allegations or improper and intimidating inquiries about their conduct and their beliefs...
...like the idea of forcing people to take oaths for special reasons," Seymour E. Harris '20, president of the local chapter of the AAUP, explained yesterday. "Why is it necessary for a student to sign an affidavit just because he is borrowing money?" he asked. The Association's protest also claimed that loyalty oaths will not uncover any person who belongs to a subversive organization, since these individuals "have no scruples about signing such affidavits...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, said that the move was designed to "put a little pressure on colleges to raise pay." Harris has written an article on salaries and fringe benefits of American professors which will be published in the AAUP Bulletin...