Professor Refuses Texas Loyalty Oath
By NANCY KOWERT
Collegiate Press Service
AUSTIN, Tex.—A retired Har
vard English professor and Pu
litzer prize-winning author has
broken an agreement to teach at
the University of Texas because
he refused to sign the state -
required “loyalty oath.”
Howard ' Mumford Jones, who
described the oath as “thorough
ly vicious,” was to be a visiting
professor of English during the
spring semester. He had taught
general literature at Texas from
1919 to 1925.
It was the second loyalty oath
case this year. Earlier, Bayard
Rustin, a controversial civil
rights leader, refused to sign the
Maryland loyalty oath before ap
pearing at the University of
Maryland. Rustin did speak after
the state’s attorney general ruled
the oath was not necessary for
one or two appearances.
Due in February
The 73-year-old Jones, an expert
on American literature and cul
ture, had made arrangements
with the Texas administration to
come to Austin in February.
"Then, they sprang the loyalty
oath on me,” Jones said. “It’s a
disclaimer oath, not a loyalty
oath,” Jones told the Daily Tex
an by telephone, saying he feels
Freemesser Gives
Symposium Talk
Bernard L. Freemesser, asso
ciate professor of journalism, pre
sented a paper on "Visual As
pects of Journalism Education"
at the Dec. 29 meeting of the
third annual symposium of the
Society for Photographic Educa
tion in Chicago.
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leading ph'oto-journalism educa
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Freemesser, who was elected to
the society earlier this year, is
the only member from the north
west.
such oaths “assume a person is
guilty until he proves himself
innocent.”
The oath, in its present form,
was passed by the Texas legisla
ture in 1953 and requires that
every potential state employee
(which includes all university
personnel);
• ... Is not and never has
been a member of the Communist
Party;
• ... Has not during the pre
ceding five-year period been a
member of any organization
which the U.S. Attorney General
has designed as totalitarian, fas
cist, communist, or subversive;
• ... Has not during the pre
ceding five-year period been a
member of any communist politi
cal or front organization.
Students’ Different
A similar oath required of stu
dent employees omits the word
“communist” and reads, in part,
“I swear or affirm that I believe
in and approve of the Constitu
tion and the principles of gov
ernment therein contained . . .
and will not aid or assist . . .
movements to subvert or destroy
the government.”
“This faculty oath violates the
principles of the American Asso
ciation of University Professors,”
Jones wrote in a letter telling
Chancellor Ranson of his deci
sion.
“It violates the principles of
equity since attached to the form
is a list of scores (a total of 290)
of organizations alleged to be
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subversive or disloyal on the
grounds that they appear on some
other lists compiled l know not
how,” the letter continued.
"1 have combatted this kind of
oath all my life as a member of
the faculty at various state uni
versities and at Harvard Univer
sity,” he wrote.
Declined UCLA
“I once (in 1950) declined to
teach during the summer term at
the University of California (at
Los Angeles) because that insti
tution then demanded an oath
like yours."
Jones went on to say that “the
oath is an affront to me as a re
sponsible American citizen who
has worked for his government
and several times taken an oath
to defend it.”
Students Receive
'Verbal Grades'
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (CPS)—
Some students at Kalamazoo Col
lege are getting verbal grades.
What they hear, simply, is the
recorded voice of their profes
sor evaluating and grading their
term papers or lab reports. By
replacing the red pencil with a
dictation machine, several pro
fessors have found that they can
give students more than twice
as many comments without in
creasing the time it takes to grade
a set of papers.
The school has not had the
opportunity to evaluate the sys
tem scientifically but some ob
servations, based on the 200 stu
dents involved in the initial test,
have been released.
Thus far the system has been
tried by professors in the Eng
lish, history, philosophy, and
chemistry departments. All the
teachers who have tried the new
form of grading plan to keep
using it.
John B. Moore, who introduced
the system at Kalamazoo, says
that student teacher contact is
greatly increased.
Moore originally tried the idea
in an attempt to have grading
time. Instead, he found he was
spending about the same amount
of time grading papers but was
making far more detailed com
ments than he did with a pen.
There have been no student
complaints and much praise from
those who felt they were receiv
ing more personal attention.
“We get a lot more under
standing just by hearing the tone
of the professor’s voice,” one stu
dent said.
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Norman Ilackcrman, vice chan
cellor in charge of academic n(
fairs, said he "regretted Jones’
decision not to come to the uni
versity." He said the university
has a "neutral position” toward
the oath. "Wo just administer it.”
he said.
"He said earlier this year that
he would be glad to come,"'C. I.
Cline, chairman of the English
department, said "It was only
when he got the official papers to
fill out that he balked. We made
him an offer of a salary beyond
anything made by any professor
in this department," Cline contin
ued.
Courses Shelved
Jones was to teach senior and
graduate level English courses in
American literature. The courses
will not be offered now that Jones
is not coming. Jones is the first
person to break an agreement
with the University of Texas over
the principle of having to sign
the oath.
Some potential professors have
been unable to sign the document
because of prior association with
a “subversive” organization iden
tified on a list attached to the
oath, but Jones is the first to re
fuse on principle
Before he was hired at Harvard,
Jones signed an oath, required
of all U S. citizens who plan to
teach in Massachusetts.
That oath reads, "I do swear
or affirm that 1 will support the
Constitution of the United States
and the Commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts that 1 will faithfully
discharge the ciiiiu*s of tin- p0s|.
lion of (blank) according to the
best of my abilities."
Harvard Supports
(’lark Hyse of the Harvard I.aw
School, chairmen of the AAI'I’
committee on academic freedom,
supported Jones’ action, saying
the oath "is not an effective
means of ferreting out commu
nists and subversives.
"The trouble with loyalty oaths
is that they accomplish nothin#,
harm people and create a suspi
cion that is unhealthy in a dem
ocratic society," he said.
Jones was awarded the Pulitzer
I’rixe in 1965 for "O Strange
New World," the firs! volume of
a history of American culture.
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