"Harvard has a reputation for this sort of thing" - Harvard's student paper The Crimson last week published a lengthy expose of a presidential "star chamber" that hounded gay students out of the university during the 1920's. The two-part article is replete with documentary evidence of the inquisition and "trials" where students were confronted and forced to implicate each other. While it can't be surprising that a gay gang garnered this sort of treatment in the Ivy League of 80 years ago, who can resist such detailed stories of congressmen's sons and Boston sailors cavorting in the dorm halls of Cambridge? (I already had some inkling of what went on at Fair Harvard after reading Andrew Tobias's 1998 article "Gay Like Me" in the college's alumni magazine.) The best line in the Crimson story comes when one of the students expelled for homosexuality writes a scathing letter to the Dean of the College alleging that Harvard was rife with fags: The reputation is "nationwide," he wrote, and "I have heard a most uncomplimentary song Princeton sings of Harvard and along this theme.”

GFN.com has current president Lawrence Summers' belated apology. Not that they have any problem with those queers in Harvard Yard anymore.