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This article is the result of a six-month effort by FM to obtain the secret court files of 1920. 500 pages of document were eventually released. Although the name of every student or alumnus involved in the case was blacked-out by the office of the Dean of the College, FM was able to identify the main individuals involved by combing through newspaper records, death certificates, freshman registers, student directories, class reunion reports, official student folders and other archival materials. The bulk of the material comes from a series in the University Archives catalogued as “Secret...
...March of 2002, FM first asked the University Archives for access to the files. According to a March 13, 1989 vote of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard will “ordinarily authorize the use of University records…concerning individuals which shall be more than eighty years old, or the individual being alive, after his/her decease, whichever is later...
...Files of 1920 fall outside of the 80-year restriction, because of the sensitive nature of the materials the Archives staff referred FM’s requests to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, whose office has jurisdiction over the files. On March 24, FM wrote to Lewis formally requesting access to the files...
...April 20, FM sent a letter to Lewis and University Archivist Harley P. Holden, appealing the earlier decision. As a result, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor...
...committee agreed that, provided the College verified that no student directly involved in the case is still living, FM could view a redacted set of the records. Lewis wrote that redaction would be necessary because “the records to which you requested access are related to a disciplinary case...