The Secret Court of 1920 was an ad hoc disciplinary tribunal of five administrators at Harvard University formed to investigate charges of homosexual activity among the student population. During two weeks in May and June 1920, "the court", headed by acting dean Chester Noyes Greenough, conducted more than 30 interviews behind closed doors and took action against eight students, a recent graduate, and an assistant professor. They were expelled or had their association with the university severed. Two of the students were later readmitted. The affair went unreported until 2002.
Witnesses and other parties:
Cyril B. Wilcox
Donald B. Clark
Edward Say
Ernest Weeks Roberts
Eugene R. Cummings
Harold Hussey
Harold Winfield Saxton
Harry Dreyfus
Joseph Lumbard
Keith Smerage
Kenneth Day
Nathaniel Wollf
Ned Courtney
Stanley Gilkey
Windsor Hosmer
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