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Engagement Broken. Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, 64, rector of the Church of the Ascension (Manhattan), and Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 46, divorced wife of W. E. D. Stokes (TIME, Nov. 12, THE PRESS) and Major Philip Lydig. She announced that the engagement was broken "owing to Bishop Manning's refusal to give his consent to a marriage in the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...were addressed by Dr. Fosdick, Bishop Brent, and Sherwood Eddy, while in the winter a series of three lectures on science and religion was given by Professors Parker and Lyman of the University and Professor Lane of Tufts College. Recently, two meetings relating to the religious controversy Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Reverend John Roach Straton, both of New York, spoke. In general, the attendance at most of these gatherings has been very good. Dr. Fosdick spoke to about 400, while 700 and 400 heard Dr. Grant and Dr. Straton respectively. In addition to the meetings, five informal Bible Study...
...They are novelties," said Dr. John Roach Straton when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the teachings of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, prominent New York Modernist clergymen. "They appeal to curiosity and to vanity. They tell their congregations that everything is all right. Instead of rebuking sin, they soft-soap. What is the use of a preacher if everything is all right...
When Dr. Percy Stickney Grant spoke a short time ago in the Union he presented the Modernist side of the controversy which has for many months been such a disturbing element in the Protestant church. The other half of the case will be clarified this evening when Dr. John Roach Straton, one of the most prominent Fundamentalists in the country, talks on the general subject of "Evolution vs. God". Dr. Grant attracted one of the largest student audiences that has ever listened to a visiting preacher; and it is almost a certainty that equally large numbers will be present tonight...
...numerous oratorical prizes, and other prizes for articles. He has been prominently identified with education and the church during the last twenty-five years, until today he is one of the foremost exponents of Fundamentalism. Tonight he will present his side of the question in answer to Percy Stickney Grant's recent speech at the Union...