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...misguided pieces of legislation this country has ever seen, the Teachers' Oath Bill takes the cake. Now let there be no mistake. The bill is law, and as such must be obeyed. Never will Harvard set the precedent for disrespect or violation of any legal statute that remains in force But every group in Harvard, every individual, is entitled, for the good of the State and the country at large, to make it quite apparent what the supposedly most intelligent sector of public opinion feels about the Massachusetts...
...Teachers' Oath Bill, is, first, unnecessary. If there is genuine radicalism in America, it cannot be rooted out of existence' by legislation. Second, it is dangerous. A mere glance at postwar European history shows that the first step towards Fascism has invariably been measures whereby the State attempts to control the life and thought of its citizens. Third, it is bound to be disobeyed; there is even less possibility of its enforcement than there was for the Prohibition amendment...
Given another few years of economic distress, given another diabolically clever demagogue, given the Legion and the D.A.E., and given another few Teachers' Oath Bills-and the political liberties on which this country was founded will be shorn of their already rapidly diminishing meaning...
...only way to dissolve the idiocy created by a supine state legislature is to adopt with a vengeance the very same methods employed by those groups in whose interest it was to have the bill passed in the first place. In working for the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill, or at least for the political defeat of those legislators responsible for its passage, the committee may count upon the full support of most reasonable citizens. The weapons used by the patriotic organizations in forcing through this supremely silly piece of legislation should be turned against them by their opponents...
...stand which President Conant has taken on the Massachusetts Teachers' Oath Bill cannot be as bald as the newspaper reports would lead us to believe. From them we gathered that members of the Harvard faculty who refuse to take an oath of allegiance, as teachers, to the federal and state consitutions will be forced to resign...