Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheer size, press publicity, and raucousness no feud with the State House was ever fought quite like the controversy over the Teacher's Oath Bill in 1935. The sides were all the state's schools and colleges versus several lawmakers. During hearings on the Teacher's Oath issue in the summer of that year a letter was introduced by Elizabeth Dilling, the ace communist hunter of her day, which referred to President Conant as a gent "partial to Russians, highly tolerant of Communists, but with their enemies the German Nazis, is harsh and refuses them opportunity to speak at Harvard...
...most militant crusader against the Teacher's Oath in the state was Kirtley Mather. Not until December 12, 1935, several months after the Teacher's Oath Bill had passed did he sign a pledge and then he did so only at the request of President Conant. Had Mather not signed and still remained on the Harvard faculty, the University would have been involved in considerable litigation with the state. Paul A. Dever, who was then attorney-general, had ruled that any educational institution which didn't comply 100 percent with the oath law would have its charter revoked. (Several...
Hearings on the Teachers Oath Law thus far had been at all times lively, to say the least. But it was the hearings for repeal which began in March, 1936 that were really characterized by the circus tempo associated with the Teacher's Oath controversy. The Boston Herald reported they "were probably the most noisy and colorful in State House history." Gaetano Salvemini, then Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, could scarcely be heard at a session March 18 because of the uproar, part of which was in his support and most own which was against...
...oath replaced an April, 1949 resolution of the state legislature, which would have empowered the presidents of state colleges to expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." The new loyalty oath asks the signer to swear, among other things, "I am not and have not during the past two (2) years been a member or affiliated with any society or group of persons which teaches ... that the government should be overthrown or destroyed...
...University of Texas spokesman says, "The Loyalty Oath has been accepted here with almost complete indifference." There have been complaints about the oaths lengthening Texas' already long registration process, but no one has refused to sign...