Rollin Lynde Hartt Explained

Rollin Lynde Hartt (1869–1946) was an early 20th-century journalist and congregational minister. His reporting and views on the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy were known nationally and mentioned in Time Magazine.^[1] His 1909 articles People at Play appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and are considered an important exception to a near-quarantine on information about then-current popular culture.^[2]

He was educated at Williams College (B.A., 1892) and Andover Theological Seminary (1896), serving in pastorates in Montana and Massachusetts.

Selected publications

• The Man himself 1924
• "Scopes Trial: What Lies Beyond Dayton" July 22, 1925 The Nation
• "I'd Like to Show You Harlem!". The Independent. April, 1921. p. 334-.
• Confessions of a Clergyman. Rollin Lynde Hartt. McBride, Nast & company, 1915.
• The People at Play. Rollin Lynde Hartt. Houghton Mifflin, 1909.
• Understanding the French. Rollin Lynde Hartt. McBride, Nast & Company, 1914.

Notes

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20081222154042/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,727668,00.html "Religion: War"
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=P3JhHjHIUcQC&dq=Rollin+Hartt+journalist&pg=PA17 Left intellectuals & popular culture in twentieth-century America By Paul R. Gorman