University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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To the Commandant of the Battalion, University of Nebraska, 'fSir- I have the honor to report that on Thursday evening of last week, when dressed in full uniform, with my sword Ca present from Co. EQ hanging at my side, I passed near Station A one Hardman, a law student, one Buchanan, a law student, one Davis, a law student. These three individuals failed to salute, but on the contrary smiled, grinned, chuckled, laughed, and boisterously hallooed, thereby both 0-mitting respect and C0111-mitting disrespect to the office with which the University has honored the undersigned. BU1:DE'r'rE GRANv1LL12 LEWIS, Caj1ia1'1L of Company E. At this time the commandant sternly faced the jury and said: Officers of the jury: You have heard the fair and impartial trial of the accused. You have heard the evidence. You will retire and, after giving the matter fair, candid, and impartial consideration, you will return the following verdict. I want to caution you, officers of the jury, not to deviate from the following findings: QReadsj I. We ind after carefully weighing the evidence that one Hardman, a law student, one Buchanan, a law student, and one Davis, a law student, are guilty of disrespect to a representative of the University and should be instantly expelled. 2. VVe find a certain law professor, the inventor of the curved ball, also late football coach of the University, guilty of disapproval of the military department, and recommend he be permanently en- joined from entering upon, going into, trespassing upon, or crawling over into, the athletic field of the University of Nebraska. 3,. We further find the Law School a source of trouble, a hot- bed of insubordination, a promoter of disrespect, and recommend the students thereof be required to drill six hours per week in accord- ance with the ruling of the war department, as Company '17, with Lieutenant Linn Murdock Huntington, late color sergeant and late editor of the Senior Annual, as captain. 4. VVe further recommend for the better dispatch of business, for the avoidance of complications, that the executive officers of the University be removed to the east end of the Armory and that one Seeley Clark be hereafter required to be on duty in full uniformfl The jury took the instructions, marched once around the plat- form, saluted, and returned the verdict as found. The commandant rose, drew from his pocket a blanket order from the board of regents confirming the findings, read it to the audience assembled, and, with the band preceding as before,'the military cavalcade re- 135

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tired. The crowd of over 1,000 rose as a man, and with never a Word marched out in single file, with head and shoulders bowed under the burden of militarism in the University of Nebraska. X will cies:-F 7 1-'fix A fm 2 g ' le, --3 .z'.-f:f114Qj5'1a'-1:2 Y , W-f sf , --:f-C A ,f -,ez ,,, Q Qs Ellis ' f . ul N Q t L9 ifamuel fiees, r. ra' Rees is the student scholastic. The murmuring tones and the scold- ings, Trades and the dickers of clansmen defiant in glittering armor,- All the base offers political in voices suave and bewitching Tempt not the calm barque of his thinking from drifting away from its moorings VVhere, 'mid the shoals and the sand bars the deep-voiced neigh- boring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the llunked. 136