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Princeton Seminary. At Princeton Theological Seminary Dr. Gresham Machen and Dr. Charles R. Erdman had maintained a bitter imbroglio for years. Dr. Machen, a stricter Presbyterian theologian than Dr. Erdman, had been named to the Chair of Apologetics at the Seminary. Of Dr. Machen's intellectual qualifications there was never a quibble. But Dr. Erdman fought the appointment on personal grounds...
Last week the general assembly voted to put the Seminary under a single board of control, and heard an investigating committee recommend that Dr. Machen's appointment "be not confirmed." Said Moderator Thompson, his head bowed, his voice faltering: "It is not more theology but more religion that is needed in Princeton." The general assembly applauded...
...Worlds Monthly was still more "respectable," listing Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway and Arthur Machen among its contributors, but retaining plentiful zest by serializing Mr. Joyce's alleged "Masterpiece of Our Time," Ulysses...
...STIGGINS-Arthur Machen-Knopf ($2.00). "I find I disliked many things in 1906," says Arthur Machen. Among them were: utilitarian literature, big business, the novels of George Eliot and Airs. Humphry Ward, Puritanism and its offspring, Protestantism; the inky rivers of the city of Manchester, drains, dogmas and all the iron altars erected to that latter day simulacrum of the Golden Bull of Tyre-the Industrial Ham. As Dickens' behavior toward Dissent was once described as that of a man who takes up a noisome fungus, smells it, makes an inarticulate noise of disgust and throws it away...
Last summer, the cause of Dr. Van Dyke's irritation, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, "stated supply" at the First Presbyterian, was removed to duties elsewhere (TIME, July...