«Eriksmoen: Playwright's first Broadway show took place in North Dakota». InForum (på engelsk). 18. april 2020. Besøkt 6. oktober 2025. «One of this country’s greatest playwrights, Maxwell Anderson, lived and was educated in North Dakota. He graduated from Jamestown High School and the University of North Dakota and was the principal and high school English teacher in Minnewaukan. [---] During the academic year of 1917-1918, a student named Arthur Camp wrote a letter to the college newspaper outlining his reason for refusing to register for the draft. The paper did not publish his letter, so Anderson wrote a letter in the student’s defense. He did not attempt to argue that Camp was morally right, but that “he deserves to be heard on the subject which seems important enough to him so that he is willing to sacrifice reputation, friends, and future to uphold his views.” Anderson was asked by the dean of the college to “back down from his letter,” but he refused and then resigned from the college in April 1918.»
