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...English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated on Feb. 12 in hundreds of cities around the world. Darwin's treatise On the Origin of Species was instrumental to the town's famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted noted trial lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in a fight to determine whether evolution should be taught in Tennessee public schools. (Read TIME's original 1925 story on the Scopes "monkey trial...
...Though Bryan and the creationists initially won this fight, the law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools was eventually overturned in the 1960s. And while most people in this town of 7,000 have been content to move past history, a Wisconsin-based atheist group, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, rubbed it in by purchasing a 12-ft. by 25-ft. billboard on the southern side of town to remind them of Darwin's legacy - and his milestone birthday. "Praise Darwin," the billboard reads. "Evolve Beyond Belief." (Read the 1955 TIME review of the original production of Inherit...
Locals, however, say the whole billboard contretemps is more amusing than controversial. "The billboard right next to it says 'My friend's got mental illness,' " jokes Tom Davis, the public-information director at Bryan College, who has lived in Dayton for 17 years...
...annual Scopes Trial Week, says the festival will not take place this year. While some residents have wondered whether that's because of pressure from outside groups during this 200th anniversary year, Davis says it was more of a staffing issue. "Simply put, the people who played Darrow and Bryan decided to retire this year, and they were kind of the driving forces behind all this," Davis explains...
...Connor was the only Crimson wrestler to defeat a ranked opponent on the weekend.Despite the stellar performances of both captains and Peppelman, the rookie’s classmates did not fare as well. Harvard’s other four freshmen—Murphy, Johnny Motley (1-8), Bryan Panzano (0-7), and Spencer DeSena (2-8)—suffered two technical falls, a fall, and a loss as the match shifted in favor of Penn. Olsen and Picarsic also dropped decisions,—Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...