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...this big battle between Straton and Mather tonight I'm putting my money on Mather. I took his course. He may, naturally be disqualified for bringing rocks with him to sock this herbiverous dinosaur of the gay nineties. But I doubt that--Mather is fair even to igneous intrusions from New York's open spaces...
This is the question which has been argued time and again on the lecture platform, in the pulpit, and in the courtroom; it is the question which at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Professor Kirtley Mather and Dr. John Reach Straton will argue at the Phillips Brooks House...
...John Roach Straton, a leading fundamentalist from the Calvary Baptist Church of New York City will exchange opinions about the origin of man with Professor K. F. Mather of the University Department of Physiography. The subject of the Symposium is "Science and Religion", a topic of recurrent interest since the Dayton trial two summers...
Professor Mather has been recognized as a foremost modernist since his appearance in the Scopes trial: Dr. Straton, his opponent on Thursday evening, has attracted no less attention by his vigorous defense from his New York pulpit of the disputed Biblical passages...
...Straton should be made to understand that the guiding light of the American Mercury is not good-hearted and that he makes his living by being anything but good-hearted Rob him of his cynicism, his black arts, and one robs him of his daily bread. Were he of a Pollyannie nature his writings would not be accepted as holy scripture by numerous intellectuals, both young and old, scattered over the countryside. When one wants sweetness and light there are other sources; but advocates of the devil who can amuse and corrupt as well as Mr. Mencken...