GOOD FOR MATHER

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 that the very questionable law, the likes of which New Jerscy barcly escaped, will now be challenged and possibly defeated in its purpose.

President Conant too has been judicious in refusing to enforce the law on lichalf of the university and in doing so has followed the only course open to an intelligent and principled university head. As for the Daughters of the American Revolution, who through the person of their president general have assailed Mather's refusal, they will surely find that nationalism of the sort they would thrust upon this country is acceptable only to a dictatorship such as America will be fortunate never to have.

(Ed note: Apparently the Princetonian was misinformed of President Conant's position.)