Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall are not his first attempts to change these attitudes. Until now, however, he has not found much of an audience either among the student body or among the Faculty. This fall, the Dean's tactic has been to convince as many people as possible that some sort of scandal was imminent if the attitudes persisted. His campaign was a perfect example of the self-fulfilling prophecy: the "Harvard Sex Scandal" now in the news resulted directly and solely from the Dean's own ill-advised allusions to shadowy "incidents" and "wild parties...
...said, Dean Monro intended simply to examine undergraduate attitudes on such matters as parietal rules and pre-marital intercourse, he need not have attempted to create a highly emotional atmosphere by hinting at scandal. In choosing to have the discussion go beyond Harvard, he has implied that the Masters and senior tutors are not competent to make decisions on parietal rules and has clouded the whole issue with further emotionalism...
This purpose was ill served by the phrases which cried "Scandall" in Dean Monro's letter. His waving the bloody shirt triggered a press scandal which has confused discussion. Taken out of context, phrases like "license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," "unrestricted sexual behavior," and "closer and closer to outright scandal," are simply inflammatory. They suggest wrongly that wild parties run rampant and Harvard; Harvard students know how rare such parties...
...would have you know that Laurence Naismith's beard, which you imply is false, is real, real, real! How do I know? I pulled it hard at a dinner party when he was in this country with the English company that presented us with School for Scandal...
...case of the girl who had the habit of sleeping around. According to one source, "If the psychiatrists on the selection committee didn't know about this girl, they were the only ones." Three months after arriving in her duty station, the girl was involved in a sex scandal that became more widely known than all other volunteer work in Brazil. Most of those "borderline cases" are now back in the States, the informant said...