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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...
...Agnosticism and Atheism are the denial of God", said Dr. Straton in his powerful, clear delivery, "and since America is founded on faith in God, they are anti-American. The Pilgrims drafted the charter of the new settlement with the Bible their only guide, and it was devotion to God Almighty that brought them to these shores and sustained them. America is unique in the history of the world in that it is founded on religion...
With no reserve and in his characteristic frank manner, Dr. Straton decried Clarence Darrow, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Bertrand Russell, and others as having aided in not only the tendency but in an institution with financial backing for undermining the social structure of the country...
...Straton has been in the limelight of publicity for the past few years because of his strict and outspoken fundamentalist beliefs, and has lately taken up the cult of divine healing, arousing considerable antagonism from other clergymen on this score...
...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...