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Consure of a Harvard President for his stand on infant baptism, two attempts at forcing oath bills on the University, and a wartime cry from alumni to dismiss certain German facultymen were among incidents in Harvard's past mentioned by Samuel E. Morison '08, Historian of the Tercentenary and professor of History, addressing last night's anniversary celebration in Sanders Theatre...
...Another oath bill for Harvard was threatened in the 1740's as a punishment for Harvard indifference toward the evangelical revival, but it failed to pass. The Harvard Presidents, when Massachusetts was a Royal Province, were charged at their inauguration by the Royal Governor to preside 'with loyalty to our Sovereign Lord King George, and obedience to his laws...
...Harvard Law School, Professor Thomas Reed Powell, topflight authority on Constitutional law, was asked whether he would take the Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution (TIME, Oct. 14). Replied he: "Certainly I'll support the Constitution. The Constitution has been supporting me for 20 years...
Convening for the second time yesterday, the committee of a hundred undergraduates who pledged themselves to fight for the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill met in Phillips Brooks House to determine a course of action. Fourteen of the men who had volunteered their services appeared at the meeting...
Harvard is used to such meddling. The teacher's oath bill is typical Heart-sponsored legislation. It catches the popular fancy, it requires little though and what is infinitely more important it boosts circulation, brings the pennies rolling in and entices fat advertizing accounts. Though Harvard has withstood and can go on withstanding meddling on the part of ignorant and ill advised critics, it cannot hold out against deliberate and premeditated falsification. Brogan criticizes the constitution from an English scholar's point of view: he does not spread red propaganda...