"MONKEY LAW."
TENNESSEE CONTINUES BAN. VOTE OF THE LEGISLATURE. A SOLEMN VOTE RECORDED. (United' Press Association—Copyright.) .'.(Received This Day,'l.4o p.m.) .'■ NEW YORK,, February 19. By a solemn vote of 67 to 20, the .Tennessee,Legislature at Nashville, today refused to repeal the State's famous "monkey law" banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in publicly-maintained scnools. The action recalls the conviction a decade ago of John Scopes, a school teacher, for violation of the law, and the famous trial in which the late Mr William Bryan defended the fundamentalist conception of Biblical teaching and Mr Clarence Darrow argued for "a scientific method" of public education.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 111, 20 February 1935, Page 5
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