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 ''

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''. His 1909 articles ''People at Play'' appeared in ''

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'' and are considered an important exception to a near-quarantine on information about then-current popular culture.Left intellectuals & popular culture in twentieth-century America By Paul R. Gorman
p.16. He was educated at

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(B.A., 1892) and

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(1896), serving in pastorates in Montana and Massachusetts.

Selected publications

* ''The Man himself'' 1924
"Scopes Trial: What Lies Beyond Dayton"
July 22, 1925 ''

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"I'd Like to Show You Harlem!"
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''. 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.

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