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...prevent unprotected youth in our schools and colleges from being deluded by communists into lives of bitter hate and frustration, fighting the invincible ideals of our great republic as set forth in the constitution. Politicians, even up to the President of the United States, have taken such an Oath for years and years without complaining, and the result has been good, clean, constitutional government. Obviously anyone who opposes the measure, since it attacks only communists, must be communistic, purveyors of the doctrines of mass murder and brutal oppression...
That the Student Council would take action to support President Conant in his opposition to the Teachers Oath Bill seemed imminent last night as a result of a petition started by several prominent Seniors. With over 300 names already registered, it was announced that a special meeting of the Council would be called for this evening to consider the matter...
...petition reads as follows: "We the undersigned respectfully request the Harvard Student Council in behalf of the undergraduate body to take active measures to support the courageous stand taken by President Conant favoring the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill...
...petition asking the Student Council to support President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Law deserves universal support from the College. When the legislative committee convenes again tomorrow, the mounting tide of opposition to the Oath will gain even more momentum if the Harvard student body pulls strongly for repeal. The Council, representing the college as a whole, and not any particular group or faction, commands solid undergraduate backing and is best fitted to take the students' case to the State House...
President Conant has already shown how the oath interferes with a professor's right to teach what he thinks, but the oath concerns the student almost as vitally as the instructor. No one has sufficiently taken the side of the man who pays for an education in order to learn about the world as it is, and not the adulterated truth as political parties may conceive it. Because it shackles the minds of the faculty, an oath law lessens the value of college training...