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BARRING OF SUNDAY.
EXPLAINED BY DEAN
Head of Princeton Graduate
School Calls Remarks of
Evangelist Offensive.

New York, April 24-Dr. Andrew
F. West, dean of the graduate schoo!
of Princeton University, has written
a letter to newspaper of Philadelphia
setting forth many reasons why
Princeton declined to invite Billy Sun
day to speak under university auspices
or in a university building.
The dean made a careful study of
the authorized transcripts OF the ser
mons delivered by Mr.. Sunday in the
course of his nine weeks campaign III
Philadelphia, and it is with extracts
from these lively sermons that Dean
West illustrates his Characterization
of Mr.. Sunday.
Take the following example, less
vulgar than many others, Dean West
writes. "Mary was one of these sort
of Uneeda Biscuit peanut butter CELIA
tin and pimento sort of women 1t
was Christ who said of Mary On that
occasion, that One thing is needful;
and Mary hath chosen that good part,
which sail not be taken away from
her.
MIR. Sunday knows better and has
taken it away. Would not the vulgar
ity have been enough without falsify-
ing the teachings of Christ ,"
Billy Sundays advice to women who
use cosmetics that they spend less on
dope pazaza and cold cream and get
down on their knees" coupled with
the promise that God would make
them pretty if they prayed more, is
termed very blasphemous by Dean
West. He quotes story told by Mr..
Sunday about an Irishman throttling
a drowning Jew, making the Jew
promise to turn Catholic, and then
forcing the Jews head under water
and keeping it there until life was
gone, so as to keep the Jew a Catho-
lie.
"The horrible story of an Irishman
numbering a jew" writes Dean West.
''Do you approve of this"
The dean quotes numerous speci-
mems of Sundays "irreverent fanil-
iarity" toward God and of his "swag-
gering impiety." He continues:
"Many of Mr.. Sundays remarks are
PERSONAL V abusive or disgusting or
slanderous. Take without comment
the following:
eli a minister believes and teaches
evolution, he is a sinking skunk,
hypocrite and liar
off a woman on the avenue plays
a game of cards in her home, she is
worse than any blackleg gambler in
the Sums
They talk about the excitement Of
a revival meeting being bad in any
community. If you say that, then you
are a dirty, rotten, sinking liar. Did
you get it?'"
A fourth argument made by Dean
West as to why Mr.. Sunday is i'm
possible is that some of his state
ments are indecent.
"Takc the following instances and
remember they are from the words of
a professed minister of the gospel of
Christ" says Dean West. "See if you
approve Of them:
go can understand why young
bloods go in for dancing, but some OF
you old ginks-good night
Ma and l stopped to look at a ball
at an inauguration ceremony. Well,
I'll be hornswoggIcd if I did not see
a woman there dancing with all The
men, and she wore a collar Of her
gown around her waist. She had Ii.
let corset On-oh, l can't describe l..
You stand there and watch man after
man as he claims her hand and puts
his name on her list. You stand there
and watch your wife folded in mis-
long, voluptuous, sensual embrace,
their bodies swaying one against the
other, their limbs twining and entwir-
ing, her head resting on his breast,
they breathe the same vitiated air be-
meath the glittering candelabra and
the spell Of the music, and you staHI
there and tell NE there is no harm ~
it. You are too low down for me-"
Dean West then quotes Mr.. Sunday
on another point Of offensiveness:
"Why a man with red blood in his
veins can't look at half the women or
the street now and not have impure
thoughts.
" Little girl, you look so small,
Don't you wear no clothes at al ,
Don't you wear no chemise shirt?
Don't you wear no pettyskirt?
Don't you wear no underclothes
But your corset and your hose?'
"No decent person can read these
quotations without shame" Dean /
West declares. He closes his letter