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Confronting the aimed and calculated thrusts of a logician, the Reverend John Roach Straton, D. D., salient fundamentalist and divine, went down to defeat at the hands of Professor R. C. Givler, Ph.D. '14, of the Department of Psychology at Tufts College, in a verbal duel staged last night in the Living Room of the Union. Before an enthusiastic, responsive audience which packed the room and listened motionless throughout three hours, the divine and the psychologist thrust and parried on the subject: "Resolved, That this house believes that the growing tendency toward Agnosticism and Atheism is undermining our social structure...
Following Dr. Straton in the forensic struggle, Professor Givler pointed out that society is not a stable institution, but one that is ever changing, and contended there fore, that any change in the existing state of affairs might be condemned as undermining the social structure of the country. "It is our habits, circumstances; personal fixations acquired in childhood that motivate us in any particular crisis in this world," he said, "not religion or anything related...
...Straton's opponent on Tuesday will be Professor R. C. Givier of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Tufts College, and the question which they will argue is: "Resolved, That the growing tendency toward agnosticism is undermining our social structure." Dr. Straton will uphold the affirmative and Professor Givler will support the negative of the question. The debate will take place at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union...
...undergraduates who will side respectively with Dr. Straton and Professor Givler have not yet been picked, but announcement of their names will be made within a few days, according to the Graduate Secretaries of the Union...
Appointments: Lyman Gorham Smith '92, as Assistant in Chemistry; Frank Silver MacGregor '18, as Assistant in Chemistry; Ralph Freston Wentworth 2L, as Assistant in Meteorology; Roger Douglas Harvey '15, as Assistant in Geology; Robert Chenault Givler, A.M. '13, as Assistant in Psychology; Frank Andrew Hamilton, M.D. '06, as Assistant in Anatomy...