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...Tuesday the convention was ready to pick heroes and villains. No. 1 hero was Massachusetts' longtime (1917-35) Commissioner of Education Payson Smith, no friend of his State's widely abominated teachers' oath law, who was booted out of his job last autumn with the approval of Governor James Michael Curley. With but three dissenting votes, the cheering, clapping convention voted to condemn Villain Curley. Condemned also was the Federal statute forbidding teachers in District of Columbia schools to ''teach or advocate Communism...
...horrid petition is circulating in your midst, asking support of President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Bill. Despise the dirty thing, chill it with boredom, shake it off in righteous anger, yield to it for the pure sentimental thrill, but don't sign. Harvard's President has disgraced her enough, without adding the scandal of her sons boasting when they should, in common decency, be ashamed...
...head and front of this (Fascist) element in support of the Teachers' Oath Law is William Randolph Hearst...
Charging that the first steps of Fascism are involved in the Teachers Oath Bill, the Cambridge Union of University Teachers yesterday released a pamphlet stating the arguments for repeal of the bill. The booklet was prepared by a committee including Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and J. Raymond Walsh, Instructor in Economics...
...only resemblance between the teachers oath and the oath for lawyers and public officials is one of name...