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Almost all other activities between the opening of the Senior year for the Class of 1936 and the beginning of the Tercentenary celebration ten months later, were eclipsed by a many-faceted dispute over the Teachers Oath Act, which required most instructors in Massachusetts institutions to swear they would support the national and state constitutions. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, struck out against the Massachusetts Legislature's stricture as "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." Mather claimed to speak for many Faculty men when he said he would not take the oath since it violated his constitutional rights. Seniors circulated...
...trying to supplant the King James version with the New English Bible, a translation carefully purged of all baraka. Though it has sold in advance by the million, the verdict of the countryside is: 'We don't like this book. The old one was holier. If I had to swear an oath on this book. I wouldn't feel bound to tell the truth...
...suggested, should equip itself with an orientation program which will teach its members to set forth the reasons and rationale (though not necessarily force them to reflect the opinions) behind government policy. It should also provide an F.B.I security check for each applicant, insist that each member selected swear to support the Constitution, and "select out" people who show themselves to be Comunist agents while working abroad...
Moving from Creation to the Last Judgment, the Raising of Lazarus to the Crucifixion, the Wakefield Plays open a window on a long-gone world when, in the words of the Mermaid's Founder-Director Bernard Miles, "life was a unity-swear words, sexual references, prayer and devotion unashamedly mixed...
...Hands on Deck (20th Century-Fox). Charles Eugene ("Pat") Boone,*a pop singer known in show business as "the apostle to the adolescents," has a face as wholesome as a glass of milk, though perhaps not quite so interesting. He does not smoke, drink or swear. Some people also say he does not sing, but then some people don't like the way Albert Schweitzer plays the organ. Certainly he does not act, but perhaps that is expecting too much of a lad who is only 26, and who, as he shyly confesses, was spanked by his mother (with...