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...declared for the " open church "-i. e., receiving members from other communions without immersion. Along with this " heresy," Dr. Woelfkin declares that he believes in evolution, and thinks that the church should try to elevate the theatre, not obliterate it. He is assailed by conservatives like Drs. John Roach Stratton and J. Frank Norris, as subverting Baptist faith and morals. The controversy assumes importance because the annual Northern Baptist Convention will be held at Atlantic City on May 22, and this " open church " question disturbed last year's convention at Indianapolis. Dr. Woelfkin is in no danger...
...other hand, have played only three games, losing the last two by narrow margins. In their first contest, on Wednesday, April 25, they downed St. James School, winning by the score of 9 to 5, but they suffered reverses at the hands of Fitchburg, and Bryant and Stratton by the scores of 6 to 3 and 4 to 3 respectively. The three outstanding performers for the schoolboys are Captain Debecker, O'Connell, and Kinsman, all of whom are letter men. O'Connell, Kinsman, and Harnden opposed the Freshmen this fall on the football team...
...died on February 25 at Daytona Beach, Fla. He was President of the Baptist World Alliance, and pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York, for 41 years. He retired in 1911, and resigned as pastor emeritus of the church in 1922 when his successor, Dr. John Roach Stratton, held a debate with William A. Brady on stage and pulpit morals...
...Samuel Wesley Stratton, Director of the Bureau of Standards in Washington, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Stratton has been connected with the Bureau of Standards for the past twenty-five years, and it is due to his scientific ability and skill as an organizer that it has grown from next to nothing into a great organization of world importance...
...Stratton is a graduate of Chicago University, where he afterwards became a member of the faculty in the department of physics. He is sixty-one years old with a long record as an educator and organizer behind him. He will succeed Dr. Richard C. Maclaurin, who died in January, 1920. Dr. Ernest Fox Nicholls was appointed to succeed him, but was unable to serve on account of illness. Dr. Stratton will take office on January...