Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century.Reframing reframing (rē·frāˑ·ming), n the revisiting and reconstruction of a patient's view of an experience to imbue it with a different usually more positive meaning in the Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century Marcel Marcel the fast ebbing of time impels him to devote his life to recording it. [Fr. Lit.: Proust Remembrance of Things Past] See : Time Chotkowski LaFollette [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Watson Davis clipped a short article out of a newspaper on May 7, 1925. John Scopes Noun 1. John Scopes - Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970) John Thomas Scopes, Scopes had been arrested for discussing evolution in a Tennessee public high school. In the Scopes trial Scopes trial, Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools. A statute was passed (Mar., 1925) in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching in public schools of theories contrary to accepted interpretation of the biblical account of human , Davis saw an opportunity for his young nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. , Science Service, to prove its worth. The Science Service Executive Committee agreed to give its reporters $1,000 to cover the trial. The committee also decided to reject neutrality, supporting the defense on the side of evolution. Davis and Frank Thone, the senior biology editor of Science Service's newsletters, acted as journalists as well as informal assistants to the defense, says historian LaFollette. They sought out top scientists to comment on the trial and lived among the scientists and biology teachers. Thone wrote: "All day and far into the night the rumble of scientific discussion and laughter issues forth from the Defense mansion MANSION. This term is synonymous with house. (q.v.) 1 Chit. Pr. 167; 2 T. R. 502; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 215, n. 35; 9 B. & C. 681; S. C. 17 E. C. L. R. 472, and the cases there cited; Com. Dig. Justices, P 5; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 199. , that pleasant old house ... that has become the headquarters for the defenders of science, religion, and freedom." Magazines and newspapers across the country ran columns published by Science Service, now Society for Science & the Public, publisher of Science News. Rather than rehashing old stories from the trial, LaFollette uncovers unprocessed records and lost photographs from Science Service records stored in the Smithsonian's archives. She examines the role of the press in shaping the trial. She also reveals how different Davis and Thone were from others who sensationalized the trial or simply kept their distance. Univ. Press of Kansas, 2008, 172 p., $45. |
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