Abstract

A University in a University Court

The article focuses on the University of Nebraska, that has performed a unique and heroic experiment in the college environment. Regents of the University have resolved themselves into a court for the public trial of a group of professors formally charged by the State Council of Defense with failing to do their duty in time of war, and in sessions held almost daily during a period of two weeks, they have listened to testimony and heard argument touching the accused. The court has been open to the public and to the press, and names not only of the twelve employees mentioned in charges of the State Council, but also those of six others introduced during the sessions, have been telegraphed to all parts of the U.S. as names of persons held suspect, in so far as the charges so make them.