{"id":789,"date":"2012-02-29T00:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T00:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2012-02-29T00:43:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T00:43:37","slug":"harvard-asked-to-overturn-gay-expulsions-of-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/02\/harvard-asked-to-overturn-gay-expulsions-of-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard asked to overturn gay expulsions of 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"

A protest is scheduled for Wednesday when Lady Gaga will visit the institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts to launch her Born This Way anti-bullying foundation.<\/p>\n

n 1920, following the suicide of undergraduate Cyril Wilcox, Harvard\u2019s Acting Dean Chester Greenough was alerted to a number of students holding gay parties that an anonymous tip-off said \u201cbeggared description\u201d.<\/p>\n

The letter received by the dean named some gay students and asked: \u201cIsn\u2019t it about time an end was put to this sort of thing in college?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the early summer of that year, Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell formed what he called a Secret Court to identify the university\u2019s actively gay students at the university and expel them and others deemed to be too close them.<\/p>\n

Lowell\u2019s court only came to light in 2002 after a chance discovery in the university archives.<\/p>\n

Eugene R. Cummings, a gay 23-year-old dentistry student, killed himself using drugs from a university sick bay before he could be expelled by the court.\u00a0 Read More <\/a><\/p>\n

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