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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 this evidence, and particularly the report submitted by Professor Mather, is "very vulnerable," is the opinion of Dr. Straton. He goes on to urge that a debate should be arranged in Cambridge between himself and Professor Mather. He says, in part: "The fact that he is a prominent figure in both the scientific and religious worlds would make him a very appropriate person to figure in such a discussion, especially as the anti-evolutionists had no chance to answer him and the other scientists at Dayton...
...Straton has long been prominent in the country as a leader of the Fundamentalist group in religious controversy. He is the author, among other works, of "The Virgin Birth--Fact or Fiction," "The Dance of Death--Should Christians Indulge?", "Our Relapse Into Paganism", and "The Fall of the Hall of The Age of Man" The last of these is described as "standing revelations concerning the musty old bones that have been juggled and manipulated to prove that man descended from the brutes...
...letter to H. H. MacCubbin '26, chairman of the Lecture Committee, Dr. Straton expressed a desire that a debate be arranged with Professor K. F. Mather, who testified for the defense at Dayton last summer...
Unfortunately the debate could not be arranged, but Dr. Straton will carry out his first plans and will lecture in Peabody Hall at the Phillips Brooks House...