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Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, has refused to teach at the University of Texas because of the university's demand that he sign on oath disclaiming membership in the Communist Party and other subversive organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jones Won't Sign Faculty Oath, Resigns From Position at Texas | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

...hired to teach two courses during the second semester of this academic year. Texas first contacted Jones last April but did not ask him to sign the disclaimer until September 21. He immediately sent a letter of resignation to the University stating that, "I have combatted this kind of oath all my life as a member of various state universities and of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jones Won't Sign Faculty Oath, Resigns From Position at Texas | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

...Oath Requirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jones Won't Sign Faculty Oath, Resigns From Position at Texas | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

...oath requires the afflant to swear that he is not and never has been a member of the Communist Party, that he has not during the preceding five-year period been a member of a subversive organization so designated by the Attorney General of the United States, and that he has not during the same five-year period been a member of any organization registered under the Federal Internal Security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jones Won't Sign Faculty Oath, Resigns From Position at Texas | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

...president started by thinning out deadwood; only three of 15 deans then ruling still hold their jobs. He brought in his own vice president, Michigan Anthropologist Frederick P. Thieme. In 1964 a teachers' suit, carried to the Supreme Court, killed the loyalty oath and let Odegaard hire capable teachers from near and far. Oppenheimer now appears on campus every so often-most recently early this month, when the National Academy of Sciences picked Washington for its annual meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Iron Man at Washington | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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