Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to include Rollins college in the above category of significant characteristics; this group will point with ill-disguised glee to the latest innovation of that institution. With all the ludicrous pomposity that misguided sincerity can impart, Rollins college has imposed on its personnel, both faculty and undergraduate, an oath that it will "strive for self-knowledge, self-reverence, and self-control." Searching for precedent, classicists discovered that a similar oath was exacted from the Athenian youth upon his entrance to manhood and civic life; the oath proceeds, "truth, courtesy, cheerful cooperation, and loyalty to Rollins...
Were it not for the sincerity rampant in every line of the oath, were it not for the palpable belief that only thus may students be persuaded of the need for serious work in college, the imposition would deserve every guffaw dispatched in its ill-fated direction. Against such sincerity there is small use to argue that undergraduates as well as faculty will recite the affirmation mechanically, with the slightest suggestion of a hypocritical smirk at the faculty of such rigamarole; it would be equally futile to maintain that if a college man is not already mature enough to appreciate...
...such a case argumentation is useless; against the hard shell of sincerity it can make no impress; to the skeptic it would be sadly bromidic. It is sufficient to draw the obvious analogy. To the average undergraduate, such a performance as the Rollins oath appears a trifle suggestively reminiscent of those faded, shrunken khaki dungarees once the foil for a pretty gilt badge...
...through the curious motions, minute by minute and detail by detail, of the real inaugural taking place in Washington. In Hampton's inaugural there may be a Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There is sure to be a Hampton Hoover, either as retiring president or president-elect. To administer the oath there will be a Hampton Chief Justice Hughes, "bearing as close a resemblance as possible. ..." There will be an Inaugural Parade, with "colorful and pleasing surprises." All is in charge of Isaac Fisher, general secretary of Hampton's Y. M. C. A., who put on a similar show...
...selected to be commencement speaker at the University of Pittsburgh, 300 students gave tongue against "militarism" (TIME, June 13). Three leaders who planned a pacifist demonstration were arrested, fined. Last week a higher court upheld them. Few days later, every matriculating Pittsburgh student was required to sign an oath of allegiance to the U. S. Constitution, the laws of Pennsylvania and the regulations of the University. Cried Business Manager John Weber: "We want right-minded students here...