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While Brooke's opinion does not have the force of a court ruling, a prominent Boston lawyer said last night that the attorney general's opinion "would be basis enough for Harvard or any other private institution to concede the unconstitutionally of the oath...
Attorney General Edward W. Brooke will assign one of his assistants to study the Massachusetts teachers' loyalty oath soon. A United States Supreme Court opinion overturning an Arizona oath prompted the decision...
...opinion from Brooke's office holding the Massachusetts oath to be unconstitutional could mean the end of attempts by Harvard and M.I.T. to remove faculty members who refused to sign the oath...
With others, I have heard with concern the suggestion that Mr. Samuel Bowles's intention to test the constitutionality of the Massachusetts loyalty oath is a somewhat quixotic enterprise. I hope that this is not the general feeling of the faculty. All such test oaths are repugnant to the academic spirit; the fact that this has been in effect for many years does not make it less so. And the fact that it has been accepted for so long is surely a reflection of the acquiescent tendencies of the community rather than the harmlessness of the oath. I hope that...
Voices of Disapproval. Students cheered the election promise but not Yerovi, whom they viewed as a symbol of the hated oligarchy. In Guayaquil, Cuenca and Loja, they stormed government buildings and held them for hours. Nevertheless, Yerovi went calmly ahead and took the oath of office as Ecuador's 57th president. "I have heard voices of disapproval for my presence here," he said in his inaugural address. "I would like them to know my point of view." With that Yerovi promised peace, austerity and economic stability. Meantime, students outside were chanting on: "People, yes! Yerovi...