(The CRIMSON invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressed under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate.)

In reply to William T. Howe's defense of Dr. Straton's address, lauding the supernatural and miraculous, and condemning the material and analytic point of view of Harvard students toward religion,--it might be well observed that any doctrine or religion which betrays muddled thinking of the type that asserts that America entered the World War purely because an omnipotent God put in our hearts a spirit of altruism to defend Europe from the clutches of a nation which had turned its heart against this same omniponent God,--it may be well observed that such religion scarcely merits serious consideration at the hands of thinking men.

The Boston newspapers attribute rather rough treatment to Dr. Straton at the hands of the Harvard students, but it is a question whether this treatment was any more than was deserved by one who would insult the intelligence of college men by skimming the froth off a serious religious discussion and presenting a mass of sensational statements, unsupported by reason of fact.--expecting students to capitulate under bombastic oratory. It is significant that the sympathies of the audience were openly in agreement with the man who accused Dr. Straton of "arguing in circles", "evading the issue", and "failing to present one single item of proof." Such remarks are in sharp contrast to the discussions after the addresses of Dr. Grant and Dr. Fosdick. These men won the respect of their listeners by straighforwardness, and earnest attempt to answer honestly the questions asked.

If the acceptance of Dr. Straton's theology demands or develops such muddled thinking and evasiveness, if the belief in the supernatural and miraculous corrupts man's thinking capacity to such a degree, then the Fundamentalist religion stands in violent antipathy to the very principles of college training, and it is clear that the student will have to choose between education and Fundamentalist religion. G. SIDNEY STANTON '27