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Teachers College delegates usually father the big-sounding resolutions that N.E.A. usually passes but last week's biggest-sounding resolution came from an unexpected source. The American Legion, which last year soothed N.E.A. by withdrawing its support of the hated teachers' oath legislation of 27 States, appeared in the person of Oklahoma's eloquent Senator Josh Lee, who demanded a "draft of all money and materials of war as well as men." Stealing Teachers College thunder, the Legion Schoolmasters hustled a resolution to that effect past the Resolutions Committee directly to the floor. Having passed it with...
...took ex-Representative Dorgan three hours to spit out his wrath against all objectors to the Teachers' Oath Law in general, and against Harvard professors and President Conant in particular, at the State House hearing yesterday. According to Dorgan's census there are 105 communists at college here, well above the Princeton low of 64 and well below the Brooklyn high...
...Massachusetts Teacher's Oath Bill was attacked as a step backward in the progress of the State, but was not considered serious. It is "merely a reflection of the general wave of intolerance which has been rising in this country but which I believe is now beginning to recede...
...Hits Oath Bill...
Incorporated in President Conant's latest report to the Board of Overseers-a statement which surveys the Tercentenary, the Conference of scholars held in connection with it, the University Professorships, the National Scholarships, and the Teacher's Oath, among many other vital matters-is a novel and pertinent suggestion, the organization of the extra-curricular study of American history. The purpose, foreshadowed in the Tercentenary address, is to "find the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition and mold it to suit our age", "the common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face...