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Almost all other activities between the opening of the Senior year for the Class of 1936 and the beginning of the Tercentenary celebration ten months later, were eclipsed by a many-faceted dispute over the Teachers Oath Act, which required most instructors in Massachusetts institutions to swear they would support the national and state constitutions. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, struck out against the Massachusetts Legislature's stricture as "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." Mather claimed to speak for many Faculty men when he said he would not take the oath since it violated his constitutional rights. Seniors circulated...
...cannon booms to distant plops. A quarter of a million people had been expected to jam the city for the big celebration, but only 25.000 showed up in time for the speeches. Braving the elements. 6-ft. 7-in. Charles ("Blackie") Swart stepped forward solemnly to take the oath as the nation's first President. It was, he intoned, "a sacred moment in the history of our fatherland.'' In the Afrikaners' eyes, the Boer War was finally won after six bitter decades; no longer would South Africa pay fealty to an alien English-speaking monarch...
...free exercise of all national powers and the security of all rights entrusted by the Constitution to its care." Despite his hints that the marshals would be jailed if they violated state law, Governor Patterson clearly had no authority to interfere with the forces of federal intervention. By their oath of office, state and city authorities are sworn to uphold federal as well as local law. And since In Re Neagle (1890)-in which the Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of a deputy marshal who killed a man while guarding a federal judge-U.S. Government officers have been...
...supplant the King James version with the New English Bible, a translation carefully purged of all baraka. Though it has sold in advance by the million, the verdict of the countryside is: 'We don't like this book. The old one was holier. If I had to swear an oath on this book. I wouldn't feel bound to tell the truth...
Replied Vinson evenly: "I did not. I know I am under oath, and I make that statement...