Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be the responsibility of this course to see that the psychological, juridical, and social aspects of the problem are considered. To this end, the services of men from the medical, law, and other graduate schools must be enlisted. But the Sociology Department is the logical executor of the course; it is best suited to the task of coordinating the various aspects and bringing them into a logical whole. Only when this is done will marriage instruction be raised from the level of a bull session, a matter for ridicule, to the position which is actually warranted by its importance...
...spearhead of the attack against the oath of allegiance is from Harvard because of their great advocacy of Academic freedom," asserted ex-Representative Thomas Dorgan of Dorchester, fiery sponsor of the original law. "But that does not mean freedom to do anything they please...
Dorgan attacked, among other things, the Student Union, which he said, was an example of the seditious elements permitted to exist unless checked by strict application of the oath law...
James S. Lanigan '39, speaking for the Harvard Student Union, demanded that the law be erased from the statutes on the grounds that "the effect of a teachers' oath reflects most heavily on us as students...
Finding the law "a tool which would be used for religious persecution when more intolerant spirit set in", Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, attacked the statute...