Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According ot the Alumni Bulletin, President Conant should seal up in a box a copy of the Teachers Oath Bill, a typical Harvard graduate, and a little gin in a bottle--they say Djinn, but we know what they mean--, and mark it, "not to be opened until...
...accordance with President Conant's request, Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, has signed the Teacher's Oath in the proper form. At the same time he requested that his "long oath" with all its qualifications be returned to the Commissioner of Education, "thus keeping my conscience clear...
Professor Mather and the men who had refused to sign the oath, or had done so with various reservations, have done their best to find some method of testing this law as an infringement upon academic freedom, without involving the University in the dispute over the legal technicalities, but have been unable...
...first place I will be in a stronger position to work for the repeal of this un-American legislation if I have signed the oath, than I would be if I were an "outlaw". In the second place, if I were to resign, it would put Harvard in an extremely unpleasant position...
Rapping the mentality of congressmen, Dr. Smith went on to say: "If the legislators who passed the teachers' oath bill had had proper adult education the bill never would have been passed, for then those who passed the bill would have been able to think the matter through and would have known that loyalty does not consist of saluting the flag and signing the teachers' oath...