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Denouement of UM scandal 1926

| April 13, 2009

Finally got a chance to look up what the state university system did about the controversy stirred up by UM English professor Sidney Cox’s literary journal, The Frontier, in April 1926 (see lonnnnnng post below). A magazine story three times used a popular phrase that included the colloquialism for a female dog in one story, [...]

The more things change … UM scandal 1926

| April 4, 2009

It wasn’t quite a sex column scandal, but in 1926  a monthly literary magazine published by students of what’s now the University of Montana in Missoula stirred up a hornet’s nest with the use of a popular vulgarity and a lurid description of a boarding house. Here’s a Missoulian report from April 5 of that [...]