April 1925—THIS MONTH IN SCOPES HISTORY
RCHS principal and biology teacher William Ferguson gets sick and misses two weeks of school in April. Ferguson’s substitute teacher is first-year teacher and football coach John Scopes.
After coaching, a couple of Scopes students in Ferguson's biology, general science and physics classes wrote that,Scopes taught them near this time that “the evidence upon which scientists base their theory of evolution, that is that all animal life is a gradual development from the simple to the highly complex animals, and probably culminating in man.”
Bryan College debaters argue the merits of school choiceThe Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation will host a debate featuring two students from the Bryan College Debate Team onThursday, April...
Scopes Trial intrigues the worldYesterday’s history, today’s headlines. Visit Dayton, TN, in July to see where it all started. For more information check out Scopes100....
Rhea Heritage officials named parade grand marshalsTom Davis and Rick Dye
Science, religion and Scopes: Conflict and cooperationThe “Great Commoner,” William Jennings Bryan, an outspoken proponent of the historic Christian faith, and the “Great Agnostic,” Clarence...
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