Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argued that teachers already have a natural and sufficient organization in the University. But the University's interests are primarily academic, and it leaves its members and charges painfully vulnerable. Conclusive proof of this lies strewn over the recent newspapers and echoes through the lecture halls: the Teachers' Oath Bill. The teaching profession in Massachusetts was badly hipped because it was utterly incapable of looking after its own interests. Certainly regulation by papers is preferable to that imposed by timid little boys wearing paper caps of red, white, and blue bunting. It is too early to pass judgment...
...Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard University geology department discussion because of his reffisa subscribe to the compulsory teacher's oath of allegiance on the state of Massachusetts and the federal constitution...
...fight for the repeal of the Teachers' Oath, Bill, D. Boone Schirmer '37, president of the NSL, has organized a committee of 100 undergraduates who held their first meeting next Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock in Phillips Brooks House...
...purpose of the committee is to keep the student body aware of the fight that is proceeding for the repeal of the Oath Bill and to organize similar groups in other Massachusetts colleges...
Holy Cross and Harvard students took little part in the combat--probably their spirit has already been sapped by the insidious radicalism of pre-Oath teaching. Only outsiders, unexposed to cowardly rationalism, were eager to do or die for the dear old College and the dear old Flag. These heroes fought the good fight and went home with spirits uplifted, eyes inflamed, and noses bloody. The Cambridge police eventually intervened, although civilization would have been better served had the carnage continued, with more spirits elevated, more eyes blackened, and more noses smashed...