Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bumptious Geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather had been speaking on "The Twilight of Democracy" at the opening of an adult education centre. Among the adults present was Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...
...misguided pieces of legislation this country has ever seen, the Teachers' Oath Bill takes the cake. Now let there be no mistake. The bill is law, and as such must be obeyed. Never will Harvard set the precedent for disrespect or violation of any legal statute that remains in force But every group in Harvard, every individual, is entitled, for the good of the State and the country at large, to make it quite apparent what the supposedly most intelligent sector of public opinion feels about the Massachusetts...
...Teachers' Oath Bill, is, first, unnecessary. If there is genuine radicalism in America, it cannot be rooted out of existence' by legislation. Second, it is dangerous. A mere glance at postwar European history shows that the first step towards Fascism has invariably been measures whereby the State attempts to control the life and thought of its citizens. Third, it is bound to be disobeyed; there is even less possibility of its enforcement than there was for the Prohibition amendment...
Given another few years of economic distress, given another diabolically clever demagogue, given the Legion and the D.A.E., and given another few Teachers' Oath Bills-and the political liberties on which this country was founded will be shorn of their already rapidly diminishing meaning...
...Paramount News is a knockout including Professor Mather on the Oath Bill and the most sinister pictures yet to get back from Ethiopia...