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John Roach Straton, so-called "divine chatterbox": "In a statement issued from my Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, I pointed out that Harvard students did not jeer at me on the occasion of a recent speech by me in Cambridge, as was alleged. Said I: 'It is true that some of the students disagreed with me and, indeed questioned me sharply. But, they did so with courtesy, in good spirit, and in general I was treated with the utmost respect. ... At the conclusion of the meeting there was great applause, but I heard no jeering...
...Perfectly hopeless" was the answer of the Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the theology expressed in the recent speech here of Dr. John Reach Straton. "If religion must fight science in order to exist, then religion is dead. The modern theologian accepts the decisions of the expert getting the best help he can from the scientist. We make theology as we go along, because we do not want to have any dogmatism...
...believe Mica when he says the world is flat. God is the great moral power working through humanity. He is the great evolving power bringing us to better things. But he didn't cause Germany to become embroiled in war, as I am told Dr. Straton claimed, nor does he have a hand in isolated acts of that sort...
...Boston newspapers attribute rather rough treatment to Dr. Straton at the hands of the Harvard students, but it is a question whether this treatment was any more than was deserved by one who would insult the intelligence of college men by skimming the froth off a serious religious discussion and presenting a mass of sensational statements, unsupported by reason of fact.--expecting students to capitulate under bombastic oratory. It is significant that the sympathies of the audience were openly in agreement with the man who accused Dr. Straton of "arguing in circles", "evading the issue", and "failing to present...
...acceptance of Dr. Straton's theology demands or develops such muddled thinking and evasiveness, if the belief in the supernatural and miraculous corrupts man's thinking capacity to such a degree, then the Fundamentalist religion stands in violent antipathy to the very principles of college training, and it is clear that the student will have to choose between education and Fundamentalist religion. G. SIDNEY STANTON...