The law professor who rarely bathed, got fired from UT, and was lead counsel in the Scopes Monkey trial
January 12, 2016 1:20 pm
Once referred to as “the epitome of the absent-minded professor,” John Randolph Neal Jr., a member of the UT Law faculty from 1909 to 1923, garnered a notorious reputation among his peers as one of the most eccentric figures the university had ever known.