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Evolutionists will occupy a defensive position tonight, when the Reverend John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of New York city, will uphold Fundamentalism and one literal interpretation of the biblical story of the Creation of Man, in his lecture on "The Battle Over the Bible," which he will deliver at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House. Mr. R. H. Schacht of Brookline will preside. The meeting is open only to members of the University...
Although the World Series and the French War Debt have sent evolution, Dr. Scopes, and the now-famous "Monkeyville" from the limelight in the popular imagination into the shades of oblivion, an echo of last summer's controversy will be heard here Thursday night when Dr. John Roach Straton will speak at the Phillips Brooks House on "The Battle Over the Bible." The Scopes case and the publicity which it received in the American press are expected to play a large part in Dr. Straton's presentation...
That Fundamentalism will again be championed at the University was assured last night with the announcement that the Reverend John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of New York City, and nationally prominent as a staunch opponent of the theory of evolution, has definitely accepted the invitation of the Phillips Brooks House Association to lecture here on Thursday, October...
...Loud, vituperative" Dr. John Roach Straton last week demonstrated that the first of these adjectives-two terms that have come to be associated with his name from the writings of penny journalists- is not necessarily unbecoming. Dr. Straton had declared, loudly, as is his wont, that he had seen two holdups on a single morning in Chicago. When the Chicago Evening Post offered him $100 if he could support this assertion (TIME, Sept. 28) many thought that the U. S. would be entertained with one or more demonstration of this preacherman's blatancy. Instead, Dr. Stratton last week submitted...
...Manhattan, loud, vituperative John Roach Straton told a vast throng that crowded the Calvary Baptist Church what he had beheld one morning in Chicago. Two holdups, no less?two foul crimes had Dr. Straton witnessed on a sunny morning while riding through the streets of Chicago. This statement was too much for some of the citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman...