(This is the first installment of a review of the year's most important events. The second installment will appear tomorrow--Ed.)

As the summer ends, 1211 Harvard and 3rd Radcliffe freshmen join 3500 male and 900 female upperclassmen in the nation's oldest and richest College and its annex. Mrs. Bunting returns to Radcliffe from the Atomic Energy Commission. A faculty committee calls the Ed School's guiding philosophy "basically sound" but does suggest that there might be better teaching and an emphasis on advanced work.

October

Paul Tillich, who taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1962, dies in Chicago.

The Government Department seeks Faculty approval of an ungraded senior tutorial, but decides not to end "the total anarchy of sophomore tutorial." Harvard policemen begin protecting Radcliffe, and the unarmed nightwatchmen they are replacing ask the state to interven.

The Gen Ed debate resumes at a level of exquisite complexity as the Committee on Educational Policy urges, among other things, that lower-level Gen Ed courses be made optional. Master Finley fears for the integrity of the Gen Ed concept, Master Gill sees the proposal as "a very positive step," and Paul M. Doty thinks everything will depend on how it's administered.

Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston absolves the undergraduate who wore a bishop's vestments and who sprinkled water on the Harvard football team during the Holy Cross game. "I hope and pray there will be no disciplinary action taken against you," Cardinal Cushing writes. Alas, the Administrative Board has already admonished the prankster.

The Arnold Arboretum suit--brought eight years ago to compel the University to return 57,000 books and 600,000 plant specimens to Jamaica Plain--is argued before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Timothy Leary, making his first public appearance here in two-and-one-half-years, says that he is beginning to understand the simplest means "by which an individual can be induced to get out beyond his mind." Henry A. Kissinger goes to Vietnam.

Harvard's endowment, buoyed by 275,000 shares of General Motors, grows 6 per cent to reach a value of $1,013,000,000. The Administrative Board agrees to consider whether students accused of disciplinary infractions should be allowed to testify in their own behalf. P. L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, arrives at Radcliffe and promises to stay "until the wind changes." Three Harvard students are knifed on Weeks Bridge. The CRIMSON makes its Fall announcement that the Graduate School of Education will build a new library.

Richard M. Nixon, in Cambridge to hire Law students, says that "the Vietnam war is going better for the United States." John Kenneth Galbraith, H. Stuart Hughes, and Mark DeWolfe Howe defend students' right to protest, and there are an antiwar rally in the Yard and an antiwar march to the Boston Common. Graduate students and undergraduates who were 2-S are reclassified 1-A.

Dean von Stade bans freshman parties for a weekend after a 15-year-old girl consumes five drinks in 20 minutes at one. Robert B. Woodward drinks a moderate amount of champagne at a press conference after winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Julian S. Schwinger, who has won the Nobel Prize in physics, stays home all day with his phone off the hook.

Radcliffe uglifies the English language by agreeing to let 20 girls Ive off.off-campus. Sheldon Diets accuses the Harvard Cooperative Society of lying about is loading dock. A survey shows that although Harvard freshmen date twice as much as freshmen in other Ivy schools, only half of the Class of '69 is happy with its social life.

November

Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., a pioneering social historian, dies in Boston at the age of 77.

A student's cigarette starts a $135,000 early-morning fire in the new section of Quincy House. Four suites are destroyed; no one is injured, but at least five locks on emergency doors fall to function. Sheldon Diets wins a partial victory in the loading-dock controversy; he says it proves "we're neither crackpots nor troublemakers."