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...Student Union, a Peace Committee consisting substantially of members of the former Peace Society will probably be formed. In addition it is expected that a Committee on Civil Liberties or Academic Freedom, composed primarily of former Liberal Club members, will undertake the organization of opposition to the Teachers' Oath Bill...
...Received back into the House the diffident and bespectacled Secretary of State for Colonies, young Malcolm MacDonald, both he and his father Ramsay MacDonald having now won seats in by-elections after losing out in the general election. MacDonald Senior escorted MacDonald Junior in to take the oath and sign the roll last week amid bedlam from Labor's benches...
Although the witness finally became inextricably confused in his own testimony and was not asked to give evidence under oath, the Munich Court ended by sentencing naturalized U. S. Citizen Karl Nisselbeck to a jail term of two years for being "an accessory to attempted high treason" to Germany committed by "plotting" with two Germans. One of these two the court acquitted; the other was sentenced to nine months...
...That's why I'm in favor of the Teachers' Oath Bill. There's no reason why a professor shouldn't take an oath--I took one when I swore in as mayor, and I think everyone should. Now up there at Harvard you know how many radical teachers you've got; well, this oath bill will do away with them, and they won't teach you any more of that socialism stuff...
...course of his remarks to an Alumni Day gathering on Saturday, President Angell of Yale struck out decisively against compulsory teachers' oath bills. "Consider," he said, "the utterly ridiculous condition which compels President Conant to take such an oath, while it allows a recently naturalized foreign priest to pour out over the radio the most poisonous and inflammatory economic and social nonsense." And quite aside from the fear that a strong oath bill may stifle intellectual freedom, Dr. Angell is rightly offended by the "outrageous implication" that teachers are less loyal than other groups in the community...