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...trial of John Thomas Scopes (TIME, May 18, et seq.) alleged teacher of Evolution, continued at Dayton, Tenn...
...grim, impassioned, breaking a silence of four and a half days with theatrical effect: "The people of this state passed this law, the people of this state knew what they were doing . . . The moment that law became a law anything in these books [indicating the Biology text used by Teacher Scopes] contrary to that law was prohibited . . . The facts are simple, the case is plain, and if these gentlemen [counsel for the defense] want to enter upon a larger field of educational work on the subject of Evolution, let us get through with this case and then convene a mock...
After drowsing through these speeches, His Honor held with Lawyer Bryan that the only question before the court was to decide whether Teacher Scopes had taught Evolution. Experts would not be needed to come at the truth of that matter. The defense might, if it liked, put its experts on the stand, but only for the purpose of furnishing the record with data for the edification of a higher court...
...death of William Jennings Bryan furnished Tennessee's anti-Evolution case with a climax. In the trial itself (TIME, July 6 et seq.), there was no climax. Judge Raulston, having denied the defense an injunction against Teacher Scopes' indictment on the ground that the state anti-Evolution law was quite unconstitutional, and having further refused to admit scientific evidence (save as affidavits* in the record to instruct higher courts) by which the defense would have sought to disprove Scopes' misdemeanor through "reconciling" the Biblical with the scientific account of creation, there remained to the trial nothing but the bald testimony...
...sitting directly across from my aging eighth grade social studies teacher in a 12-person class. She wasn’t exactly holding my attention, and my drowsiness betrayed my boredom. Finally, annoyed, she asked me across the entire class if she was keeping me up. It was a trick question—was either answer good? I turned red and muttered a sheepish no. It’s a moment I haven’t heard...