Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest, John Jay Chapman vs. "The Aggression of Rome," continued...
...John Jay Chapman, graduate of Harvard, resident of Manhattan, author and publicist, is a man of intensity, energy. What he believes, he believes passionately. His right arm is off at the elbow. Few have the exact reasons for this, but it is commonly believed that, for having struck a friend (or teacher), Mr. Chapman did penance by thrusting his right arm into a blazing furnace...
Last month, Mr. Chapman addressed an open letter to Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts, calling the attention of the latter to phrases employed by Cardinal O'Connell of Boston in dedicating a Catholic church near the gates of Harvard University. The Cardinal had said: "Some centuries ago, some of the great schools of Europe, like Oxford and Cambridge, forgot their duty to their mother." Of Harvard, the Cardinal had said that, if she "had the old faith of Christ for which she was supposed to have been erected, her influence would be tremendous, and we i. e., the Roman Catholics] would...
...Chapman called the Bishop's attention to "the customary silence with which such statements by Roman pre lates are received in America. It is thought unkind and subversive for any Protestant to resent the claims made by the Roman curia, or even to call attention to them. The outspoken purpose of the Roman Church is to control American education." Later in his letter, Mr. Chapman referred to the election, some years ago, of a Catholic (James Byrne, of Manhattan) as one of the seven Fellows of Harvard. "Under present conditions of Protestant speechlessness, the presence of a Roman Catholic...
...Chapman of Harvard replied by showing that the present situation is a periodic one and that it has existed many times in the past. He emphasized that this party was the third and major at the same time and that the third party can only become major if based on some principle...