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Shortly after it arrived in Cambridge, a bitter dispute developed over the Teachers' Oath Act, a Massachusetts Law which required instructors to swear that they would support the national and state constitutions. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, called the act "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." He said he represented many Faculty members in refusing to take the oath because it violated his constitutional rights...
Mather's objection was in reality, based purely on principle for he had taken such oaths many times previously. All through his campaign he maintained that he had "no unwillingness to swear under conditions which make an oath appropriate." While a group of seniors circulated a petition supporting him, Mather reconsidered, then retracted his stand in the interest of keeping the University out of a threatened law-suit...
Throttling the Press. As a leading member of the lower house of the Vir ginia legislature during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson supported a loyalty oath requiring all males over 16 to swear aliegiance to the state. Those refusing were forced to pay triple taxes and stripped of their civil rights. He also helped pass a bill to round up Tories and ship them to designated areas in the interior. He drafted a bill of attainder-which in effect condemns the victim without a trial-against a group of Tories who were plundering the countryside...
...across the huge land, church bells tolled, artillery boomed, factory whistles screamed and horns blared on thousands of buses, trucks and cars. Before the assembled state Governors, national Congressmen and generals in Brasília's Chamber of Deputies, former General Castello Branco solemnly took the oath of office as his country's 26th President. Said he: "I shall do everything possible to consolidate the ideals of the Brazilian nation when it rose-splendid in courage and decision-to restore democracy and free itself of the frauds and distortions that made it unrecognizable. Let each man carry...
Besides, the Hippocratic oath, which commands a physician to put his patients before himself, was proving to be an effective strikebreaker. Many doctors were secretly, and a bit shamefacedly, still treating their patients. Doctors in Brussels began telephoning their patients to say they were back on the job -but please keep it quiet. The strikebreakers were not beyond exercising a little lighthearted blackmail: one dental surgeon replaced a broken bridge for a politician on the condition that he would not use his newly recovered power of speech to lobby against the strike. In Ghent's Refuge Ste. Marie...