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...fight for the repeal of the Teachers' Oath, Bill, D. Boone Schirmer '37, president of the NSL, has organized a committee of 100 undergraduates who held their first meeting next Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock in Phillips Brooks House...
...purpose of the committee is to keep the student body aware of the fight that is proceeding for the repeal of the Oath Bill and to organize similar groups in other Massachusetts colleges...
Bumptious Geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather had been speaking on "The Twilight of Democracy" at the opening of an adult education centre. Among the adults present was Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...
Holy Cross and Harvard students took little part in the combat--probably their spirit has already been sapped by the insidious radicalism of pre-Oath teaching. Only outsiders, unexposed to cowardly rationalism, were eager to do or die for the dear old College and the dear old Flag. These heroes fought the good fight and went home with spirits uplifted, eyes inflamed, and noses bloody. The Cambridge police eventually intervened, although civilization would have been better served had the carnage continued, with more spirits elevated, more eyes blackened, and more noses smashed...
...Paramount News is a knockout including Professor Mather on the Oath Bill and the most sinister pictures yet to get back from Ethiopia...