Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the entrenched meanders about which he so amusingly lectures Professor Mather realizes that at times a complete change of direction is the only available way in which to make progress possible. In forsaking the picturesque program of stubborn resistance, he and his fellow-opponents of the Teachers Oath Bill are taking a line of action which promises to be a much more practical solution of the problem at hand...
...only way to dissolve the idiocy created by a supine state legislature is to adopt with a vengeance the very same methods employed by those groups in whose interest it was to have the bill passed in the first place. In working for the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill, or at least for the political defeat of those legislators responsible for its passage, the committee may count upon the full support of most reasonable citizens. The weapons used by the patriotic organizations in forcing through this supremely silly piece of legislation should be turned against them by their opponents...
...stand which President Conant has taken on the Massachusetts Teachers' Oath Bill cannot be as bald as the newspaper reports would lead us to believe. From them we gathered that members of the Harvard faculty who refuse to take an oath of allegiance, as teachers, to the federal and state consitutions will be forced to resign...
...commenting on the Teachers' Oath Bill of Massachusetts. Powell said that he was glad to take an oath to suppert the Consitution. "It has always supported...
...believes that the legislature has the right to tell the teachers what they may or may not teach, but that it transcended its rights by making it innovatory to take an oath, thus bringing in the "pains of Hellfire." "It was unconstitutional for them to do this," he added, "for two reasons, cruel and unusual punishment and extra territoriality...