Word: stratons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest in speakers, controversial speakers draw the largest crowds, as evinced by the Dr. Grant and Dr. Straton meetings. Of course men like Bishop Lawrence, who hold a great position in the Church, are not included in this discussion. But the quickest way to interest the undergraduates is to get them arguing. And arguing is the only way they will ever come to cement their plastic beliefs. It is good for them to disagree, for only by refuting someone else can they convince themselves. Some may believe that argument and controversy have no place in true religion. If that...
Fosdick, Grant, Straton Spoke...
John Roach Straton, so-called "divine chatterbox": "In a statement issued from my Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, I pointed out that Harvard students did not jeer at me on the occasion of a recent speech by me in Cambridge, as was alleged. Said I: 'It is true that some of the students disagreed with me and, indeed questioned me sharply. But, they did so with courtesy, in good spirit, and in general I was treated with the utmost respect. ... At the conclusion of the meeting there was great applause, but I heard no jeering...
...Perfectly hopeless" was the answer of the Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the theology expressed in the recent speech here of Dr. John Reach Straton. "If religion must fight science in order to exist, then religion is dead. The modern theologian accepts the decisions of the expert getting the best help he can from the scientist. We make theology as we go along, because we do not want to have any dogmatism...
...believe Mica when he says the world is flat. God is the great moral power working through humanity. He is the great evolving power bringing us to better things. But he didn't cause Germany to become embroiled in war, as I am told Dr. Straton claimed, nor does he have a hand in isolated acts of that sort...