Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pages of a publication under the auspices of Harvard University. The freedom to hear and discuss all point of view has so long been part of the air we breathe at Harvard that it comes as a profound shock to find that the Summer School does not uphold that freedom...
...regard as relevant is the question of honesty, which the evasion of New York's laws raises. He showed he lacks the political honesty to attempt to change a law he disagrees with, and lacks the personal honesty to abide by a law he is sworn to uphold. If he were President, one can only wonder which laws he might use his wealth to evade...
...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 his constitutional rights...
...infuriated by President Kennedy's order-sending 3,000 troops to Army bases near Birmingham after the Mother's Day bombings. The President had said, "This Government will do whatever must be done to preserve order, to protect the lives of its citizens, and to uphold the law of the land...
...falls to the educated man, said Kennedy, to assume the greater obligations of citizenship-for the pursuit of learning, to serve the public and to uphold the law. The educated man "knows that for one man to defy a law or court order he does not like is to invite others to defy those which they do not like, leading to a breakdown of all justice and order. He knows, too, that every fellow man is entitled to be regarded with decency and treated with dignity. Any educated citizen who seeks to subvert the law, to suppress freedom...