Word: teachings
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Three professors yesterday attacked as needless and dangerous the proposed Massachusetts bill to outlaw "subversive" activities and to require the loyalty oaths of all school and college teachers. The bill, modeled after Maryland's Ober Law, makes it illegal to teach the violent overthrow of the government. Those participating in groups branded as subversive by the courts would face fines and imprisonment...
Under consideration at present is a University preacher who would run Memorial Church and teach G.E. courses in religion and a University chaplain who would advise students on their problems, replacing some of the Hygiene Department's work in this field...
Ober had insisted that Conant implement a policy the President had backed earlier in 1949 as a members of the National Education Association Committee: that communists should not teach. But, Clark said, the University did not intend to allow a witch hunt. Conant had already allowed the University News Office to state" . . . the report of the N.E.A. Committee dealt with judgments . . . and did not attempt to discuss legal or procedural aspects of the appointment and possible dismissal of teachers...
...Massachusetts Legislature's joint committee on Communism today told the state to outlaw all "subversive organizations and to make at illegal and punishable to "teach or aid" the overthrow of the government by force and violence...
Educators must teach students what is worth fighting for, if they are to be ready for "the terrible experience of fighting," Julius S. Bixler, President of Colby College, said here last night...