Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant is not blindly optimistic about Harvard's future. The uncertainty of modern conditions, both economic and political, out all long-range planning on the knees of the gods and the populace. To President Conant, as to all educators, the teachers' oath bill rang out like a fire-bell in the night. Still, as he said, Harvard's three-hundredth anniversary is the ideal time to show the contributions of such an institution to the public welfare...
19th. Betimes up, and to the State House all the morning hearing many tricky speeches to repeal the Teacher's Oath Law; this, bless my soul, continues to be the best three ring circus in Boston: Never in my life have I seen a chairman so easily fussed as Senator Miles; a State Representative more naive than McDermott; speakers so well-meaning and yet so careless of their words; or an audience with so many fat, bubbling women...
Lord, what things come out of men's mouths! I hear one man compare the Oath Bill to a law compelling him to be faithful to his wife (in which case he wouldn't, says he)! Another talks of free love; another says the bill is like a law compelling his heart "to leap up at a rainbow in the sky"; another asks the American Legion how it would like all its members required to be examined for communicable diseases! To which there were many objections and many cheers...
...definitely encouraging to read that other universities understand and sympathize with Harvard and her faculty, who find their realm of discussion now limited. Yale would promote stiff opposition to the imposition of such an oath on her intellectual freedom. And so would we here at Pennsylvania. But we feel that we have little to fear. We can make no comparison between the intelligence of a New England legislature and our own, but we would hesitate to believe that Pennsylvania's assembly would act in such a stupid fashion. Daily Pennsylvanian...
Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, will compare the Fascist Teachers' Oath in Italy with that now in effect in Massachusetts when he testifies today at a continuation of the legislative hearing on the repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is also expected to speak...