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...while also partaking a bit of the spirit which the years may have worn off his outlook on life. At the same time, the University shares some of his maturity, becoming for a few days a community of experienced men, men with broader points of view, men who positively affect rather than passively submit to learning. Reunions add not merely to the traditions of the University, but contribute also to the character of its community, to each of its citizens...
...mere fact of membership in an organization should bar no teacher from his job. Membership in leftist groups does not affect a man's competence as a teacher. In some cases even a card-carrying Communist might be perfectly competent to teach his subject, and so long as this possibility exists, general proscriptions are wrong. Professional competence and professional competence only should be the criterion for the hiring and firing of teachers...
However, one of the three judges on the appellate body told reporters that the court's decision did not affect the validity of the loyalty oath law as far as teachers and other state employees were concerned...
Heffernan's decision went on: "We are not so naive as to accept as gospel the argument that a teacher who believes in the destruction of our form of government will not affect his students... The result may be accomplished by indirect, subtle insinuations; by what is left unsaid, as well as what is said...
...excitement. The huge cavern buzzed with talk of General Motors' new five-year contract with the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The pact had been announced the day before, after the market closed, and traders now wondered how this testimonial to continued prosperity would affect the market...