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...With the oath of Professor Mather and two other Harvard faculty men rejected yesterday by Payson smith, the executive board of the Harvard Student Committee for Repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill came out last night with a statement demanding that the professors must not be dismissed...
...Professor Mather and the other teachers who signed the oath with reservations must not be dismissed from their positions. It is perhaps an over-estimation of the power of the reactionary Hearst press to fear that it" hysterical demand will be heeded by any responsible person. But a restatement of the opinion of many students and faculty members, shared by thoughtful observers through the country, seems necessary at this time...
...Particularly must there be complete freedom from the Influence of powerful minority groups interested to see restriction and retrenchment in education. The threat of dismissal, however slight it may be, which is held over Professor Mather and the others in concrete evidence of the illiberal and undemocratic effect the oath bill can exert...
...That the oath bill has no penalty clause is an established fact; thus speculation is rife as to whether the state or the university is in the position to enforce the signing of the oath. President Conant has taken the position in a letter published some weeks ago that the members of the faculty should comply to a state law, even though they and he are opposed in principle...
Professor Mather wrote two exceptions onto his oath; namely that he would not sever his connections with a Russo-American cultural group and that he did not transfer from the University to the State the right to judge his fitness as a teacher...