Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapman voiced his complaint in a letter to William Lawrence '71, Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, and one of the five Fellows of the College...
...John Jay Chapman '84, whose protest against the recent election of a Roman Catholic to be a Fellow of Harvard College was widely quoted in New York newspapers yesterday, is not and never has been an overseer of Harvard College, in spite of newspaper assertions to the contrary. According to an official statement issued yesterday Mr. Chapman has had no official connection with the University since his graduation...
Although Mr. Chapman does not specifically mention the Fellow to whom he refers it is understood that it is James Byrne '77, who is a prominent New York attorney and a Regent of the University of the State of New York...
...Chapman's protest against the election of a Catholic as a Fellow of the University will generally be regarded as an unjust and premature crying of fire. The days have long passed when intelligent people seriously believed that the Roman Church could hope to dominate the educational system of the United States, the separation between Church and State has become so traditional in the United States that it seems certain to remain. Even Catholics cannot be so dead to the facts as to hope that one religious denomination can ever control the liberal universities and the schools of the country...
...issues especially when that board is composed of men who are likely to have opinions of their own. It is still less evident that the ability to limit a discussion would carry with it the ability to control the votes of the silenced members. The suspicion arises that Mr. Chapman may be tilting against a very elusive wind-mill...