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The holder of the barbecue concession on the courthouse lawn builds up his fire and heaves half an ox on the coals. The field secretary of an anti-Evolution society picks his teeth and adds a note or two of his stock harangue, delivered thrice daily: "Shall we be taxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

Jury. A jury was sworn - ten farmers, a shipping clerk and a farmer-teacher, none of whom had ever read a book on Evolution or admitted a prejudice for or against it; all of whom, with the exception of one illiterate, had read the Bible.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

In Los Angeles, Calif., U. S. Secretary of the Navy Cuntis D. Wilbur advertised an address before the Bible class which he once taught. He tried to reconcile Evolution and the Bible by dissenting from literal interpretation of the latter and rejecting "God in a vacuum."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

A native of Brookline, Mass., a Harvard graduate and onetime professor, Dr. Little is just one year the junior of President-elect Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin. In 1917, he was commissioned a captain in the aviation section, reserve corps, U. S. Army; then a major in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Little | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

At Knoxville, Tenn., counsel for the defense-John Randolph Neal of Dayton, chief; associates Clarence Darrow and Bainbridge Colby-formulated plans Associate Counsels Dudley Field Malone and Charles H. Strong (Secretary of the N. Y. City Bar Association, appointed as "observer" by the Unitarian Laymen's League) were absent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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