AMICUS No. 13541477
                                   Monograph/Microfiche

       NLC COPIES: NL Stacks - Mic.F. TH-80569
                   NL Stacks - Mic.F. TH-80569 - Copy 2

          NAME(S):*Betts, Edward G., 1969-
         TITLE(S): The argument of the century [microform] : the Ontario 
                    press coverage of the Scopes trial and the death of 
                    William Jennings Bryan
        PUBLISHER: Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque 
                    nationale du Canada, 1993.
      DESCRIPTION: 2 microfiches.

           SERIES: Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes
            NOTES: University Microfilms order no. UMI00415263.
                   Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 1992.
                   Includes bibliographical references.
                   In July, 1925, the famous Scopes "Monkey" trial brought 
                    to a head many longstanding cultural tensions. It was 
                    the culmination of the American 
                    fundamentalist-modernist controversies and of the 
                    anti-evolution campaign of the 1920s. The same tensions 
                    existed in Canada in the 1920s; hence, the trial 
                    sparked widespread interest in the Ontario secular 
                    press. In certain respects, the press coverage of the 
                    trial mirrored that of the United States. At the same 
                    time, though, most Ontario papers praised Bryan's 
                    character and his strong Christian faith, and held 
                    important reservations with respect to modern science. 
                    What is most notable, then, is the manner in which 
                    editors and publishers attempted a reconciliation 
                    between traditional faith and modern science. They 
                    advocated tolerance and open-mindedness, and attempted 
                    to find the middle-ground between Bryan's 
                    fundamentalism and Clarence Darrow's modernism. Unlike 
                    American church leaders or the Ontario secular 
                    newspapers, however, the Ontario religious press did 
                    not stake out a clear position with respect to the 
                    trial or the challenging cultural questions it raised. 
                    Finally, in their coverage of the Scopes trial, the 
                    Ontario press emphasized a sense of Canadian 
                    exceptionalism which was indicative of the country's 
                    growing nationalism. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
          NUMBERS: Canadiana:  942083040    
                   ISBN:  0315805692
   CLASSIFICATION: Dewey:  340 20