Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teacher in a Worcester high school, if you lecture thrice weekly to Harvard, Wellesley, Tufts, or Boston University students in History, or Zoology or even Mechanical Drawing . . . if you do any of these things in Massachusetts you have an oath bill to sign...
...peace on earth." Not above a whisper, anyway. You can't say "this was good enough for daddy but it's not good enough for me." There's a teachers' oath bill. And you have to sign it. Your school or college is there to see that you do. And if you won't, your title changes to ex-professor...
Professor Packard evidently does not consider a student's oath of as much consequence as a teacher's, and has refused to preserve one on his famous records...
...yesterday without being given a chance to read over the script. He got through the part about Acsop's mouse all right, but when he came to the statement that he was to chat informally for a full minute, he lost all control, and a particularly violent and surprised oath escaped...
...record was hastily run over to see if the oath had registered, and it had, only too clearly, but the Professor declined to preserve the specimen for posterity, and gave it to its creator to take home and play on his own victrola...