Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There's another method of taking the Teachers' Oath Bill to the people!" stormed Thomas Dorgan, former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, last night, as he learned that his brain "nightmare", the Teachers' Oath Bill, had been virtually repealed in the House, 111 to 102, in a preliminary rollcall...
...what they're arguing about!" said the former representative. "The Massachusetts law isn't as harsh as other states' laws." He was amazed at the statement that the oath law places a stigma on the teaching profession. "No, no!" he cried, "the oath law doesn't accuse the teachers, it honors them...
...current battle over the Teacher's oath recently, emphasizes Dean Holmes' warning in his last report; "American universities face a dangerous period of intolerance directed against teachers, schools, and universities." When President Conant appeared last week before the legislature, he spoke as President of Harvard and rightly so. The University was being directly attacked and the duty of defence naturally rested upon his shoulders...
...measure will have far reaching effect, but many will deny that it can be considered primarily as a threat to the educational principles for which President Conant and Harvard stand. The result of entering the political lists when the institution is not directly concerned, as it is in the oath law, is to focus the attention of the politicians on the universities, and it may engender an "eye for an eye" attitude that will do more than anything else to destroy their traditional freedom...
Powerful factors have been at work in the last twelve months toward a reconsideration of the ill-favored oath law. President Conant and various representatives of Harvard have taken the floor against the principle of the oath, which stifles that free consideration of current problems which is the kernel of true education...