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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, it was announced that A Civic Biology, one of the text books containing an unBiblical account of the creation for the use of which Teacher Scopes was arrested to test the Tennessee law, had been placed on the reading list of that city's high and junior high schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ballyhoo | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

Countered, last week, one Charles M. Manly, pilot of the plane in Langley's experiments: "Launch the Langley machine from its original catapult and let it write its own label. . . . Test it in its original condition of 1903 and invite the world to hear it speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wright vs. Manly | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...course in their Senior year. They are carrying at the same time added weight of divisional examinations with all the necessary tutorial work that leads up to them. Students as well as instructors have known that the tutorial system was an experiment. They have had ample opportunity to test it, have acquired faith in it, and want to see it succeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GLANCE AHEAD | 6/18/1925 | See Source »

...when the evidence is, insufficient or conflicting. This is intellectual honesty, and is as necessary for religious as for scientific doctrines. When a truth is once accepted by such a method, it is no longer subject to doubt. Belief is then firmly grounded. Is religion able to stand this test? If so, Dr. Young's fears are groundless. If not, it doesn't matter. Truth will prevail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGIATE MORALITY | 6/16/1925 | See Source »

...Democrat, of Maryland. He objected that "many of our civilians and many of the members of the National Guard, too . . . already have made preliminary plans for outings on that day [July 4]. . . . I do not feel like asking either citizens or National Guardsmen to curtail their recreation for the test." He consulted with his adjutant general and declined to extend mobilization orders to civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Day | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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