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Like the entrenched meanders about which he so amusingly lectures Professor Mather realizes that at times a complete change of direction is the only available way in which to make progress possible. In forsaking the picturesque program of stubborn resistance, he and his fellow-opponents of the Teachers Oath Bill are taking a line of action which promises to be a much more practical solution of the problem at hand...
...commenting on the Teachers' Oath Bill of Massachusetts. Powell said that he was glad to take an oath to suppert the Consitution. "It has always supported...
Worthy of great praise is the decisive stand of Professor Mather of Harvard against the enforcement of the stupid and repressive Teachers' Oath Law of Massachusetts. In refusing to sign an oath of allegiance as a teacher he has refused to lay himself at the mercy of all narrow minded chauvinists who might choose to interpret utterances of his as unpatriotic. To suppose that anything particularly subversive or radical might invade the teachings of a professor of geology, which is the position Dr. Mather holds at Harvard, is, to begin with, ridiculous. But it is a matter of some importance...
...believes that the legislature has the right to tell the teachers what they may or may not teach, but that it transcended its rights by making it innovatory to take an oath, thus bringing in the "pains of Hellfire." "It was unconstitutional for them to do this," he added, "for two reasons, cruel and unusual punishment and extra territoriality...
...suggest that perhaps the oath will prove not to be mandatory. Then the refusal of one man to obey the law would quickly have shown this. Next you suggest a test case on the constitutionality of the law. How is this to be brought about except by the refusal of someone to obey it? Lastly you suggest that if the law is a poor piece of legislation, as you say is "probable", Professor Mather could "arouse public opinion to influence the State Legislature in its repeal". Is this not just what he set about to do? Bert Arenson...