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...current battle over the Teacher's oath recently, emphasizes Dean Holmes' warning in his last report; "American universities face a dangerous period of intolerance directed against teachers, schools, and universities." When President Conant appeared last week before the legislature, he spoke as President of Harvard and rightly so. The University was being directly attacked and the duty of defence naturally rested upon his shoulders...
...measure will have far reaching effect, but many will deny that it can be considered primarily as a threat to the educational principles for which President Conant and Harvard stand. The result of entering the political lists when the institution is not directly concerned, as it is in the oath law, is to focus the attention of the politicians on the universities, and it may engender an "eye for an eye" attitude that will do more than anything else to destroy their traditional freedom...
...third time in as many years the Legislative Committee on Education yesterday reported against the Teacher's Oath Law, this time favoring repeal by a vote of nine to five. This decision represents an advance over last year's count, where repeal triumphed by a single vote, and the likeli-hood of the House following the Committee's lead is far greater than before...
Powerful factors have been at work in the last twelve months toward a reconsideration of the ill-favored oath law. President Conant and various representatives of Harvard have taken the floor against the principle of the oath, which stifles that free consideration of current problems which is the kernel of true education...
Questioned concerning the new move recently made by President Conant, proposing the extra-curricular study of American History, the Board Chairman stated it was an excellent step in modern education. But such things as the Teachers' Oath Bill he was whole-heartedly against, he said. Why should this class be singled out among the many professions to take a vow required only of public officials...