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Opposition to the teaching of evolution in U. S. schools did not die out-or even languish-after the death of the most celebrated anti-evolutionist. Teacher Scopes was fined $100 (later remitted) and left Tennessee;* The Tennessee anti-evolution law still stands. Restrictive laws are also on the statute...
"Some of the zoological textbooks of 30 years ago were dry," he writes, "but they were not rotten. Our effort is to learn why biological science has not obtained and maintained its proper place in our schools, and why great biologic truth is so little possessed by our people. We...
When James Hampton Kirkland of Spartanburg, S. C., eight years out of the University of Leipzig, took over Vanderbilt in 1893, it was chiefly because the bickering Methodist Episcopal bishops who ran it could agree on none but a dark horse candidate. Twenty years earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted...
In 1934, same week the Morro Castle burned off the Jersey shore, the S. E. P. was featuring a newspaper short story by Manuel Komroff, based on the Titanic disaster, called "Never Misspell a Name." In 1935, Test Pilot James ("Jimmy") Collins plunged to his death a few weeks after...
Among the new features will be a history of the College Library, describing its evolution from a small collection given by Cambridge men to the present Widener Library which has an income of $65,000 a year. Many new photographs including Yard scenes and action sport pictures have been given...