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...teacher in a Worcester high school, if you lecture thrice weekly to Harvard, Wellesley, Tufts, or Boston University students in History, or Zoology or even Mechanical Drawing . . . if you do any of these things in Massachusetts you have an oath bill to sign...
...peace on earth." Not above a whisper, anyway. You can't say "this was good enough for daddy but it's not good enough for me." There's a teachers' oath bill. And you have to sign it. Your school or college is there to see that you do. And if you won't, your title changes to ex-professor...
...furthermore, strong, healthy American teeth are being put into this oath bill you sign. Your college or school administration has promised to enforce this oath. New and bigger teeth are pushing through every...
...bill that would have denied the rights of "any political party which advocates the overthrow of or carries on a program against local, state or national government--" failed to find a place in the laws of the state last February. It seems unbelievable that a New Hampshire oath bill could be passed, that here at Dartmouth an Administration which has stood behind liberalism might be driven to comply with such a law if it were passed. But it happened at Harvard . . . . and Tufts . . . . and Wellesley...
...individual indignation, individual refusal to sign a teachers' oath bill, or to be bull-dozed in any way, form or manner, is not enough. It wasn't enough at Harvard. It has never been enough. For there will be more than Law behind a New Hampshire Oath Bill or its equivalent. There will be ORDER. There will be organization...