Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oath of allegiance to the Constitution now exacted from teachers in 23 States and the District of Columbia. Since no other U. S. professional class is thus singled out to affirm its patriotism, teachers have keenly resented their oath as a special indignity. Warmly cheered was National Director Thomas Warrington Gosling of the American Junior Red Cross when he cried: "Compulsory oaths of allegiance are flagrant examples of dictatorship...
High point of the Teachers' Oath movement was reached last year when Congress, in the course of appropriating funds for District of Columbia schools, ordered all Washington school employes, including janitors, to swear before receiving each month's pay that they had not "taught or advocated Communism" during the month past. Author of this legislative rider was Texas' blatant Red-hating Representative Tom Blanton, from whom District of Columbia teachers meanwhile received a questionnaire with a franked reply envelope...
Meanwhile the American Legion, which in 1934 called on State legislatures to enact the hateful Oaths as part of its "Americanism Program," humbly recanted. Dispatched to Portland to eat crow was Agnes Samuelson's good friend, Editor Frank Miles of the Iowa Legionnaire, who announced: "The national commander [James Raymond Murphy] authorizes me to say that he believes the Legion would make a mistake if it advocated the Teachers' Oath Bill." Explained Legionary Miles: "The Legion wants the youth of America to think...
March 9: Student Council supports Conant on Oath Bill stand. March 20: Conant justifies existence of privately endowed institutions at second Tercentenary Event. Harvard present and future discussed. Sees limitations of tutorial system. Suggests possibility of three year college course. March 26: Miller and Dunn take Wade and Boylston Prizes. Packard named to select 300th speakers...
April 6: Harvard Square business men join anti-Oath forces. April 7: Repeal of Oath Bill defeated in House. Deland appointed '36 Agent for Harvard Fund. April 9: Ballantine-Bowditch resolution results in minor changes in Student Council Constitution. Dismissal provision included. April 10: Ford elected 1937 Hockey Captain. April 15: Princeton-Harvard-Yale conference on public affairs announced by Crimson, News, and Tiger. Conant and Holcombe support move. April 17: Davidson and Navy on 1937 football schedule. April 21: Veterans of Future Wars hold mass meeting in Emerson. Demand bonus. Government 1 and Ec. A reorganized under Holcombe...