Series I. Senate Faculty Committee, 1934-1953, inclusive

This series consists of administrative and faculty statements, minutes, and correspondence between 1951 and 1953 concerning Burgum's suspension and subsequent university trial and exhibit material introduced by both plaintiff and defendant in the trial as legal evidence. These records include two exhibit items by Hollis Cooley, member of the faculty committee, eighteen exhibit items by Burgum, and sixty-two by Dean Thomas Pollock. This material, gathered in preparation for the trial contains published items such as books, newspapers, court testimony, and journals, as well as thermofax copies of correspondence, articles, essays, and statements and lists of political groups. Some exhibits items remain unidentified. Unmarked exhibits of published material have been removed and placed with other published items in the collection.