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...There are no more educators in Massachusetts; they are all now propagandists for the State and Federal Constitutions!" thundered Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night in denouncing the Teachers' Oath Bill, to climax the anti-Oath drive which ends today when the second Repeal Bill will be discussed at the State House...
...much opposed to the spirit of the Bill as to the "invidious distinction" which requires only teachers to take the Oath, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, declared that even garbage men should be made to swear the Oath. "I think it's a good thing to have a good deal more swearing than we have now," he maintained satirically, quoting from the Massachusetts Constitution the section requiring that all public officers adhere to the principles of "piety, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality...
...sleeping dogs lie may be a comfortable adage for most of us, but for the Massachusetts Progressive Committee and numerous student federations it is no kind of policy to use in dealing with the Teachers' Oath Bill. Tonight at 8 o'clock this particular sleeping dog will be ferreted out of its pleasant slumber and voraciously torn limb from limb. Though it is difficult to see any material decline in Massachusetts education since the enactment of the Oath Bill last year, nuisance legislation, like a docile canine with fleas, is obviously bothersome. For attempting to drive out this undemocratic pest...
...reference to the Oath in classes or lectures apparently brings nothing but knowing smiles and genial mirth. What little pique the law has stirred up is principally due to its naive conception of the Bill of Rights and the illogical requirement for teachers-one of the most capable elements of our population-to swear allegiance while wags and politicians unhindered spread their senseless palaver over the air or in the press. As far as the ultimate purpose of the legislation is concerned, the Teachers' Oath Bill is doubtless a dead letter. Educators raise their right hands and then continue teaching...
...other reason than to erase an anomaly, ineffective as it may be, from the statutes of a democratic state, the Oath Bill should be struck out of the books. The protest tonight, on the eve of the hearing, should help to crystalyze opposition...