Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convening for the second time yesterday, the committee of a hundred undergraduates who pledged themselves to fight for the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill met in Phillips Brooks House to determine a course of action. Fourteen of the men who had volunteered their services appeared at the meeting...
Harvard is used to such meddling. The teacher's oath bill is typical Heart-sponsored legislation. It catches the popular fancy, it requires little though and what is infinitely more important it boosts circulation, brings the pennies rolling in and entices fat advertizing accounts. Though Harvard has withstood and can go on withstanding meddling on the part of ignorant and ill advised critics, it cannot hold out against deliberate and premeditated falsification. Brogan criticizes the constitution from an English scholar's point of view: he does not spread red propaganda...
...effort to rally as much support as possible in the campaign for repeal of the Teacher's Oath Bill, a meeting will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Phillips Brooks House. The meeting will be open to all members of the University, and the sponsors of this move hope to enlist the aid of the student bodies of their various colleges in the fight for repeal of the statute recently passed by the legislature...
...undersigned, believe that the Teacher's Oath Bill is contrary to the spirit in which the Constitutions of Massachusetts and of the United States have been conceived. We believe that in spite of the harmless nature of its phraseology, it constitutes an abridgement of the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, conscience, and education. We therefore strongly urge that the Teacher's Oath Bill be repealed...
...musing Vagabond; the name India, even as a richly-patterned flying carpet of an Oriental story, carries him away from this screechy, glary world of steam shovels and oath bills to a land whose proverbial wealth and mosques and snake charmers and fire walkers and clever elephants is exceeded in interest and enchantment only perhaps by the richness and beauty of its philosophy and literature. On a carpet woven of these finest thoughts and sentiments of India the Vagabond is thus flying today. It is the "Rig Veda." To those who would be led by this sacred book they will...