Sounds rather contemporary…

… The Headmaster's Dilemma By Louis Auchincloss - California Literary Review. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Michael Sayre is the unwilling headmaster of the Averhill school, an upmarket New England institution, known for its gilded past. He has been having a smooth run at the school, interrupted only by his concern for his wife, who has given up a gifted law profession to accompany her husband to the school. But Donald Spencer, the vile chairman of the Board of Trustees, hates his guts. Nursing an old rivalry with Michael, Spencer is on a continuous lookout for an opportunity to get him evicted. And he gets just such a chance when a sexual scandal threatens to besmirch the the school’s reputation and take down Michael in the maelstrom