Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allied field of literature their is likewise an absence of knowledge. Harold Bell Wright is more popular than Shakespere: Pilgrims Progress more widely read than Gene Stratton Porter. Unless refuge is to be taken in Barnum's dictum, author and producer, musician and dancer must apparently be resigned to the fate of pleasing some of the public some of the time, some of it all, of the time, but never all of it all of the time...
...basis of all this conservative certitude and attack upon progressiveness is to be favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton of 57th Street, Manhattan, to serve as his prime minister or grand vizier, these tirades against modern knowledge and its exponents are quite intelligible...
...Harvard Christian Association, under whose management the address has been arranged, had hoped to have some theologian of less liberal views than Dr. Grant debate with him on religious, topics of the hour. The logical person, however, Rev. John Roach Stratton, rector of Calvary Church, New York, has declined the invitation to be on the platform at the same time as Dr. Grant. Nevertheless there is a possibility that he will appear at the University at some later date...
...needs amplification to be convincing, but the body of evidence he has built up is impressive. And he is not alone in his ideas. Many first-rate economists, as Sauerbeck, Poynting, Aftalion, Bresciani-Turroni, Hollander, Mitchell; astronomers and astrophysicists, such as Turner, Schuster, C. T. R. Wilson, Birkeland, Nodon, Stratton, Huggins, Bauer, Douglass, W. W. Campbell; weather sharps such as Bigelow, Clough, Henry, have arrived at very similar conclusions, or have corroborated various steps in the grand generalization. We are forced to believe that there is good evidence for the linking together of planetary phenomena and economic cycles...
...annual meeting and dinner of the New England Alumni Association of the Phillips Exeter Academy will be held this evening at 6.30 at the Hotel Somerset. President Stratton of M. I. T. will be the special guest of the evening. Lewis Perry, principal of the Academy, Jeremiah Smith, president of the board of trustees, and Professor James A. Tufts are to be the other speakers. The committee announces that tickets will be on sale at the door...