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Lawrence J. Nelson. Rumors of Indiscretion: The University of Missouri "Sex Questionnaire" Scandal in the Jazz Age. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 323. $39.95.

In the spring of 1929, a student committee in a sociology class at the University of Missouri in Columbia mailed questionnaires to undergraduates as part of a class project. The students consulted several members of the faculty about the questionnaire, and Harmon O. DeGraff, who taught the course, and Max F. Meyer, a distinguished professor of psychology, signed off on it. In order to save the students money, Meyer let them use surplus envelopes from the defunct Bureau of Personnel Research. When a local newspaper editor got hold of the questionnaire, he blasted it and the university and demanded an inquiry. Before the university's governing body of curators finished, they had fired DeGraff and suspended Meyer for a year. (He never resumed his teaching post, however, at Missouri.) Orval Hobart Mowrer, the undergraduate principally responsible for the questionnaire, withdrew from the university without receiving his degree. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) launched a full-scale investigation of academic freedom violations at Missouri. Within a year the curators fired university president, Stratton D. Brooks.

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