Harvard's Secret Court
Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities
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Show Notes
In 2002, Harvard undergraduate student Amit Paley stumbled upon a strange entry in Harvard’s archival database: “Secret Court Files, 1920.”
This discovery unearthed a dark and little-known chapter in Harvard’s history—a secret disciplinary tribunal convened in 1920 to investigate and punish students for being “guilty” of homosexuality.
Read Amit's original reporting: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/11/21/the-secret-court-of-1920-at/
For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts
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