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...clear that the act does not require you to take the oath if your duties are wholly and clearly apart from teaching. Very sincerely yours, James B. Conant...
...should like to congratulate you on taking the leadership in expression of disapproval of the "Teachers Oath" Act (Ch. 370, Mass. Laws of 1935). I also approve your decision not to consider the matter of sufficient immediate importance to warrant embarrassing the University administration in view of the course of action it has seen fit to announce. Of course I speak only as an individual colleague, in no other capacity, and with no other authority whatsoever...
...there is also a possibility that the statute is unconstitutional. If it is unconstitutional, anyone who cooperates in its enforcement is cooperating in harassment of citizens in violation of the supreme law of the land. It is hard to answer the question satisfactorily because in so far as the oath refers to support of the federal and state constitutions, I find it to be absolutely without meaning. Section 2a expressly recognizes 'The basic principle of the constitution which assures every citizen, etc. the right to advocate changes . . . in both the state and federal constitutions.' Obviously, one may thus teach that...
...Teachers' Oath Act' stands, the Legislature seems to be making merely a nasty gesture suggestive of Hitler or Mussolini. Legislators who voted for it were flirting with violation of their own oaths to support the Constitution, but it is not clear that they have accomplished even that. Yours sincerely, James A. McLaughlin...
...display lack of generosity in refusing to believe that Professor Mather's decision to comply with the Oath Bill is the result of his unwillingness to involve the University in a legal battle. Professor Mather does not need to "extricate himself rather gracefully" from anything. He has shown himself willing to take personal responsibility for his action. If there were not men like this who shun the ineffectual mollycoddle ways of the CRIMSON, democratic government would have vanished long ago, if indeed it could ever have appeared...