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...editions of "The Copeland Reader," edited by Professor C. T. Copeland '82, gave been published by Charles Scribner's Sons comprising a two-volume edition designed for text-book use, and a five-volume subscription edition of elaborate design. The text-book edition has one volume devoted to the American reading, and one containing only the English literature treated in the Reader...
...arguments of the ghostly advisors of the Church, both Catholic and Protestant, are four. Two are puerile; two show a woeful ignorance of the one text-book their profession requires. They say that birth control is "unnatural". Of course it is, like clothing and houses, like cooked food, like medicines, like all arts and sciences, like everything which distinguishes man from the lower animals, like marriage itself. More frequently still they quote the in- junction to Noah, "Be fruitful and multiply," given, according to tradition, when the people of the earth were eight in number. It is difficult...
...book. This pasteboard binding had been made by glueing together odd pages, two of which were the rare old leaves now on exhibition. The leaves were used for binding because they contained errors, as was discovered by comparing them with corresponding pages of Latin editions of the same text-book for which they were intended...
...remote fastnesses of Tennessee, where a high-school professor is arraigned under that state's new anti-evolution law for having "taught evolution" from a biologic text-book previously approved by the state authorities (TIME, May 18), the forces of light and darkness ranged themselves for conflict. George W. Rappelyea, Dayton coal man and evolutionist, who preferred charges against Prof. Scopes to test the law's constitutionality, marshaled funds for the defense, announced that, in addition to many eminent scientists who had offered assistance and testimony, the services of Herbert George Wells, British outliner of history, would...
Scopes had continued, after the evolution bill became law, to use a text-book previously approved by state authorities...