Word: jolters
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Back home at Smith College, President William Allan Neilson found his mail doubled over night. The extra letters were from alumnae, begging him to drop Jolter Barnes...
Then last week Jolter Barnes went back to his sophomores at Smith, while mountains heaved behind...
...Osborn gave the first heave. He declared Jolter Barnes's theological speech an unwarranted intrusion on a scientific body. "There is no conflict between science and religion. Some of the greatest men on science have been very religious." Dr. Joseph Mayer, head of the Tufts College sociology department, hastened to aver: "I disagree most emphatically with Mr. Barnes...
From the clergy came a wry farrago. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates at the Chapel of the Intercession called Jolter Barnes a smart-Alec. Dr. Lyman P. Powell at St. Margaret's remarked that Jolter Barnes confused front page publicity with ordered knowledge. Rabbi Nathan Krass at Temple Emanuel contended: "Science enhances the glory of God." Cardinal Hayes at St. Patrick's Cathedral listed a score of great men in biology, anthropology, astronomy, surgery, pathology, who have been Catholic, religious...
...Fosdick ignored Jolter Barnes's invitation to make up a new God. Said he: "The foremost religious minds are becoming more scientific, and the foremost scientific minds are becoming more religious. It is the little minds in both camps that cause the trouble...