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...case became even more mysterious when Greenough received an unsigned letter dated May 26 from someone who identified himself only as a member of the Class of 1921. The anonymous student knew all the details of Cyril Wilcox’s suicide and informed the Acting Dean how Cyril first got involved with the underground gay group. “While in his Freshman year he met in college some boys, mostly members of his own class, who committed upon him and induced him to commit on them ‘Unnatural Acts’ which habit so grew...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Secret Court of 1920 | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...tensions with his freshman roommate, Cyril Wilcox, were a constant source of worry. “Wilcox and I are no longer on speaking terms, I am so disgusted with I cannot bring myself to talk to him,” Day wrote to his cousin in an April 18, 1919 letter...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Secret Court of 1920 | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...became the first witness to appear before The Court. There were three pieces of evidence against him. The anonymous letter charged that he attended the parties in Roberts’ room, Perkins 28, an accusation the proctor’s letter supported. Even more incriminating was the letter to Cyril Wilcox in which Roberts wrote that Day engaged in homosexual acts with Roberts himself and with many others. Day “confessed to H.S. [homosexual] relations with Roberts, after denial at first,” according to Court notes. During his freshman year, Day “guessed what...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Secret Court of 1920 | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...perhaps 5’9’’ or 10’’. He has a thin black moustache. He probably weighs about 140 lb.” He added: “I have lately found a letter written by Piper [Courtney] to Potter [Cyril Wilcox] in which he asks Potter [Wilcox] to induce his roommate and Day to come to his room in Boston.” George Wilcox apparently did not enclose the letter, for no such correspondence is in the files of The Court...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Secret Court of 1920 | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...between mentions of an “old faggot” and a man named Sak whom he was hoping “to spend the night with,” Roberts told Cyril Wilcox in his May 10 letter that he was spending all his time in Brookline with Helen. “She is the kind of girl I can say anything to at all,” he wrote. According to his testimony before The Court, he sometimes lived with the Smith family in Brookline rather than staying in Perkins...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Secret Court of 1920 | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

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