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100 1 $aWright, William,$d1930-2016.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80060582
245 10 $aHarvard's secret court :$bthe savage 1920 purge of campus homosexuals /$cWilliam Wright.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a294 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references p. ([283]-284) and index.
520 1 $a"In 2002 a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." What he uncovered was five hundred pages of clandestine documents describing in detail an eighty-year-old episode in which Harvard University maliciously persecuted and harassed young men who were believed to be engaging in homosexual activity. It was a major scandal and one of the biggest cover-ups in Harvard's three and a half centuries. Over the decades the purge was forgotten, and by the time the news broke in 2002 there was no one alive who had ever heard of it." "In May of 1920 the family of Cyril Wilcox, a student who had been suspended from Harvard, noticed the smell of gas coming from his bedroom. Rushing to the room, the Wilcox family found Cyril sprawled on his bed - a suicide. In the next days, two letters arrived for Cyril that revealed his secret life as part of a coterie of young homosexual students. The resulting witch hunt, which wrecked careers and destroyed lives, remains one of the most shameful episodes in the saga of America's premier college. Spearheaded by the legendary Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell, the university pursued its purge with vigor and in total secrecy. Students began to incriminate other students. The result was a tragedy." "Several students committed suicide; others had their lives ruined by an assiduous and inexplicably prolonged effort on the part of Harvard to discredit their reputations. In two cases, however, those who survived rose to major prominence, one as a greatly respected federal judge and the other as a successful Broadway producer." "Harvard's Secret Court is an indictment of the intolerance that exacts a human toll when a powerful institution loses its balance."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aHarvard University$xStudents$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aGay college students$zMassachusetts$zCambridge$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aDiscrimination in higher education$zMassachusetts$zCambridge$xHistory$y20th century.
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