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...Colby, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was the speaker at the Commencement exercises and also received an honorary doctor of science degree. Mather was a leader in the fight against the Teacher's oath Bill during the last year. Henry W. Dunn of the Business School also received an honorary degree from the Maine College...
Down the centre aisle through the hushed House, escorted by Representatives O'Connor, Taylor and Snell, marched the sturdy, grim-lipped, white-suited Alabamian. A tactless Congressman started to applaud, was quickly shushed. Speaker Bankhead took his oath with shaking hand, head bowed to hide his tears...
Hoping to make their voting pressure felt in the fall elections, a provisional Anti-Oath League Society has been organized by a group of students, resident in the Boston wards...
...oath that binds you for life or death...
When a Dubliner is about to quote William Butler Yeats he stills his hearers and puts quotation marks in the air by raising his right hand as if to take an oath. Yeats himself never raises his voice above a faint chant. Absentminded, mystical, called the most complete type of fop that has ever appeared in literature, he has gone his dreamy way regardless of critical catcalls. has steadily grown in the estimation of Ireland and the world. Of the small, select number of first-rate modern poets, Yeats is certainly one. An old man now (70), he writes little...