Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every university in the country today. No more flagrant example of intimidation has assailed the nostrils of American colleges in years and the action taken by the Carolina House should be relegated to the same ash-can as Representative Dorgan's fatnous attempt at self-immortalization, the Teacher's Oath Bill and his subsequent measures to clean up the impure allusions in Hamlet...
...kings in general as Patrick Henry and James Otis and Thomas Paine felt and spoke about George III. . . . However, I am ready to admit that some of the more recent English kings have been rather good fellows, in some respects. Edward VII had the decency to protest against the Oath against Transubstantiation. In reward for his courage in that matter, he died a Catholic. Having made that point-blank statement, perhaps I had better add that I will not enter into any controversy on the matter. But I have direct, authentic reliable inside information on the matter which I could...
...recent hearings on the bill to repeal the Teachers' Oath Law in Massachusetts have proved the efficacy of the oath in turning college professors into rebels--a result the reactionary legislators could hardly have intended. A veritable War of Independence was fought with all of Boston either taking part or looking on. Broadsides of passion, eloquence, logic, ridicule were all fired at the law by the biggest of academic shots. But despite this unanimous support of the repeal bill, it is still in committee, and both the temper of the hearings and the composition of the House make its adoption...
...teachers' oath laws in some twenty states have bombed out of their shelters thousands of such men and women. Led by a few who from the first have realized the dangers implicit in the law, teachers in schools and colleges are mobilizing a belated but sturdy and almost unanimous resistance. And everywhere they have won the support of the students in their institutions and the more sophisticated groups in their communities. The middle class begins to scent trouble...
...that the protest against the oath implies any fundamental social choice or even a clear realization of the nature of the threat. On the contrary, the chief emotion of the majority of protestants is resentment at the "imputation of disloyalty" in the oath laws, the suggestion that teachers might also be radicals. And behind this sense of injured innocence lurks a further feeling of outrage that members of a learned calling should be held to account for their words and acts by politicians representing a noisy rabble of legionnaries, professional patriots, and the yellow press. Those who have taken...