Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon his return from a short trip to Washington and the University of Virginia yesterday, President Conant issued the following statement relative to the Teachers Oath Bill...
While Professor Mather displayed little of the careful deliberation which marks geologic forces when he flayed the Oath Bill with unlatched tongue, he took only ten hectic hours to extricate himself rather gracefully from a sport which had much in common with the Ethiopian frontier...
...result of the speech of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, on Wednesday night, claiming that he would not support the Teachers Oath Bill, Representative Thomas Dorgan of Dorchester, sponsor of the bill, announced yesterday that unless public opinion is aroused sufficiently to force teachers to sign the oath, he would put teeth into the statute at the next session of the legislature...
Opinion among the faculty yesterday differed. A representative group reached by telephone claimed that they would sign the bill, but do it under protest. A few came out flatly against the oath. Wilbur C. Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, stated that all the members of the History Department to whom he had spoken would sign the bill under compulsion, but that there would probably be a petition from the Department against...
Boston must realize that bringing up the racial question in this way can only make the situation worse. To ban a book or play only makes it all the more sought after. To insist on an oath of allegiance only makes the teachers more unsympathetic with the government. Mr. Campbell is reported to have said that he would read "Captains Courageous" again and give his decision at the end of the week. It is to be hoped that he will refuse the request...