To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The mention of the Rev. Dr. John Roach Stratton in your otherwise admirable article in Tuesday's CRIMSON on the Harvard Catholic Forum seems to me unfortunate. The Episcopal Church, and particularly the most ardently Catholic portion of it, has reiterated times without number, its complete detachment in regard to the debate of the Fundamentalists and Modernists (both names are about as appropriate as the average cigar label) which divides most of the Dissenting Sects. Mr. Wim. Jennings Bryan's sad dilemma of "the Rock of Ages and the age of rocks" simply can not exist for the Catholic Churchman. There is no more real conflict between natural science and the Church, so long as each remains properly itself, than between geometry and philosophy. There are, of course, unscientific scientists and priests who take "flyers" outside their province; but that does not effect the true alignments.

I have not the honor of being associated with the new Catholic discussion group, but, since Catholocism is always a matter of acceptance of the Nicene Creed, not of breaking lances or pulpits over the Book of Genesis, I feel sure the gentlemen who compose it would deplore being thought to be in any sense inspired by the well-meaning but typically Protestant campaigns of Dr. Stratton. MARCUS SELDEN GOLDMAN 2G.