Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maid who looks for a man under her bed, the legislatures of the country seem to be suffering from a fixation concerning their own doom. Nothing could be a more ludicrous and at the same time pathetic example of the current alarm-clock insanity than the Masschusetts Teachers' Oath Bill which took effect in the Commonwealth yesterday...
...plea to the faculty to refuse as a body to take the oath in an effort to have the law repealed, was signed by one Robert J. Action. Indicating himself as an associate of nothing but learned societies, he could be found in no connection with the University...
Branding the oath of allegiance document as an humiliation to every intelligent teacher, and as "demagoguery in the guise of patrioteering," a letter was circulated yesterday among the Harvard faculty at the same time as the oath blanks, which were mailed so that the members may make the pledge individually...
Members of the Faculty were unwilling yesterday to indicate their intentions or to comment on the circular letter. It is understood, however, that many of the members will take the oath, including President Conant, who led the fight against the bill last spring...
President Conant, who led the fight against the Teachers Oath Bill and who went on record as believing that it was a reflection on the loyalty of teachers as a class, will take the oath with the rest of the faculty it became known yesterday. He has made this decision in order that he may take the lecture platform when he so desires. Letters will be mailed to all members of the faculty during the week so that they may take the oath individually...