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When the Massachusetts Legislature decided to require an oath of loyalty from every teacher in the State, a host of angry professors, led by impulsive Harvard Geologist Kirtley Mather, galloped out to do battle for the cause of academic freedom (TIME, Oct. 19). Because their universities dared not follow, the professors presently scampered back, took their oaths...
...over-head a hollow voice suddenly began to croak: Senator Gerald P. Nye was saying that as soon as the witnesses had been sworn, cameramen would please retire. Three white-thatched witnesses stood up. The amplifiers carried the clunk-clunk-clunk of cameras along with the words of the oath. Flashlamps flickered like heat lightning...
...thrown out as commissioner of Education on December 19 as the result of the Teachers' Oath Bill controversy, which Dr. Smith did not favor, after a service to the State extending 19 years...
...have always been opposed to the Teachers' Oath Bill," he stated, "but certainly believe that it should be lived up to while it is still on the books...
Against Teacher's Oath...