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...other activities between the opening of the Class of 1938's sophomore year and the beginning of the centenary celebration--already looming on the University's horizon--fell in the shadow of a many faceted dispute over the Teacher's Oath Act, which required most instruction in Massachusetts to swear that they would uphold the national and state constitution Kirtley F. Mather, professor of geology, struck back at the Massachusetts Legislature's structure as "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." Mather claimed to speak for many Faculty members when he said he would not take the oath, because it violated...
Mather's objection, in reality, was purely a matter of matter of principle; for he had many times previously taken such oaths. And all through his campaign he maintained that he had "no unwillingness to swear under conditions which make an oath appropriate." While a group of seniors circulated a petition supporting him. Mather reconsidered, then retracted his stand is the interest of keeping the University out of a threatened lawsuit...
...find myself doing that from time to time," Brown rambled on. "But sometimes it's used not as a-it's used more as a term of endearment more than anything else." Later, Brown confided that his daughter Kathy had asked: "Daddy, you don't swear...
...says. "Tibet, because it is too high, and Germany, because it is too low." To this, he stiffly adds that his Teutonopho-bia is a sturdy vintage '14-under Hitler it merely matured. It was the atrocities in Belgium during World War I that first moved Rubinstein to swear "a solemn and heavy oath" he would smash his fingers before playing again in Germany, and the oath grew heavier in World...
Other jockeys call Steve Brooks, 41, "the psychiatrist," and swear that he talks to his horses. If he does-and Brooks does not deny it-he speaks the right language. Last week, at Florida's Gulfstream Park, he rode Johnsal, a three-year-old colt, to victory in a $3,000, six-furlong sprint. For Johnsal, it was win No. 1 in a year of trying. For Brooks, it was win No. 4,000, in 25 years of succeeding. Only Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Willie Shoemaker and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards have won more races...