Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response to over 1000 names on the petition distributed yesterday asking that active measures be taken in support of President Conant's stand on the Teachers Oath Bill, the Student Council last night unanimously passed a resolution urging the repeal of the bill...
...resolution strongly backs Mr. Conant's stand, states that no faculty member has been heard advocating subversive or inflamatory doctrines, objects to the spirit behind the enactment of the bill, and urges its repeal...
...Whereas the Harvard undergraduates have forcefully expressed themselves in support of President Conant's stand for repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill...
...asking the Student Council to support President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Law deserves universal support from the College. When the legislative committee convenes again tomorrow, the mounting tide of opposition to the Oath will gain even more momentum if the Harvard student body pulls strongly for repeal. The Council, representing the college as a whole, and not any particular group or faction, commands solid undergraduate backing and is best fitted to take the students' case to the State House...
...Student Council can arrive on Beacon Hill armed with scores of signatures favoring repeal, the lawmakers will sit up and take notice. Politicians are more sensitive to potential votes than to the high-minded doctrines of a dozen college presidents, for it is only the perfect organization of the paper dollar patriots that gives them their control. But when several thousand students add their weight to President Conant's plea on behalf of the faculty, the legislators may feel more inclined to take the abortive Oath Law off the statute books. Every student in the college should make an effort...