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...JOHN JAY CHAPMAN can act so rashly because of mere suspicion, how can we wonder at the behavior of those "lewd fellows of the baser sort" who profiteer in prejudice by catering to the same suspicions held by thousands of uneducated, provincial people...
...OWEN Wismx, the novelist, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, approves Mr...
...One meniber, however, Mr...
...When, and where, and through whom has the "Roman Church" ever announced its "outspoken purpose to control American education," outside of the education of American Catholics in Catholic schools...
...ELLEn SEDGWICK, editor of the AmAwnc MONTHLY, Judge JLTLIAN W. MACK, Mr...
...It is in the minds of all intelligent educators...
...XV HAT the Catholic Church really teaches and actually practises in the matter of education can be readily ascertained by any one willing to consider facts instead of fancies...
...First, what claims have ever been made by the "Roman Curia" that have to do with American education, outside of the limits of the jurisdiction of the Church over the education of Catholics in Catholic schools...
...He says he would welcome, "free and honest discussion on a topic so vital as the strategic control of education in the United States by an organized power alien to American ideals...
...WISTER advances propositions that are even more extreme than Mr...
...Wisrr.a's words, if they mean anything, mea.~ that he takes it for granted that there does already exist, first, "strategic control of education in the United States," and, second, that this control is exercised by "an organized power alien to American ideals, which power he must mean is the Catholic Church, as otherwise the passage does not make sense...
...CHAPMAN produces em deuce on these points—which, however, he cannot pos sibly do, for the conclusive reason that no such evidence exists—his statements have no foundation save only in his own sinister suspicions...
...CHAPMAN' S views are, Mr...
...CHAPMAN regards the election of a Catholic, the first and only one, among the seven Fellows "who control Harvard's destinies," as a dangerous precedent "It is thought unkind and subversive for any Protestant to resent the claims made by the Roman Curia, or even to call attention to them," he writes...
...OwEN WJSmR to produce whatever evidence he possesses, evidence which to other peopl: seems to be non-existent, as proofs of these three propositions...
...CHAPMAN...
...This is one of the larger issues of our epoch...
...CHAPMAN'S action, saying—"1 welcome honest discussion on a topic so vital as the strategic control of education in the United States by an organized power alien to American ideals...
...WISTER'S statement is ambiguous...
...LATER news, published by the NEW YORK WORLD, is to the effect that four of the Harvard University Board of Overseers have announced themselves as in entire disagreement with Mr...
...LANCOoN P. MARvIN...
...The only spokesmen for the Church are its bishops, and those authorized by the bishops...
...CHAPMAN'S...
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...Thomas F. Woswcx, President MicliAxi...
...All the bishops of the United States issued...
...That an educated gentleman, like Mr...
...And that is what is saddening in this unfortunate episode...
...Until Mr...
...The latter only goes so far as to say that the "Roman Church" has announced "its outspoken purpose to control American education...
...THERE are two questions of fact raised by this extraordinary passage...
...The outspoken purpose of the Roman Church is to control American education...
...EDWARD HICKILING BRADFORD, and Mr...
...If such a man as Mr...
...DANA Szcrxwm $1O.OC...
...The four overseers who condemned Mr...
...MR...
...November z6, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL 57 THE COMMONWEAL Publislrtd wendy and copyrighted 1924, in the United States by the Calven Publishing Corporation, 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, N.Y...
...It would seem to be up to Mr...
...Cl1APrvw~, a champion of liberal culture, a writer of distinction and authority, who yet on matters concerning the Catholic Church will speak so wildly, and without any proofs of his allegations, is a painful instance of the unbalancing effects of the poison of religious prejudice...
...Single Copies: flZ) WEEK BY WEEK MR JOHN JAY CHAPMAN, writing to Bishop LAWRENCE of Massachusetts, objecting to the election of a Catholic as a Fellow of Harvard University,makes several rather weird statements which will provide the professional anti-Catholic press and agitators with excellent material for their fulminations, but which will make informed and fair-minded people either smile at the grotesqueness of the opinions expressed, or else sadden them because of the aberrancy of a high-minded idealist, which they so grievously illustrate...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 3
