HSA officials searching for missing refrigerators find 35 of their lost iceboxes at Kennedy Airport. An airport spokesman reports that the iceboxes "have just been sitting there" for a year, since being stranded at Kennedy during a stopover by an HSA charter flight.

April

The Harvard Police report that, according to its statistics, no crimes have been committed at the University since January 1. Asked to explain, Police Chief David Gorski attributes the data to "altruistic New Year's resolutions."

Hoping for "a change of pace," Daniel Patrick Moynihan decides to decline all job offers from President Bok for 60 consecutive days.

Two days after University officials announce a $25 million "Fund for the Upcoming Future" fund-raising campaign, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions at Harvard and Radcliffe, announces that every member of the Class of 1981 is also the son or daughter of Harvard or Radcliffe graduates. Asked to explain the unusually high percentage, Jewett declares, "They just happened to be the most qualified."

May

In his annual report, President Bok declares an all-out war on government regulation. "If Congress does not end its efforts to strangle us in red tape," Bok declares from his combat headquarters in a steam tunnel below Mass. Hall, "then I'll never appear on Meet the Press again."

The search for HSA's prodigal iceboxes leads to the Peabody Museum where, scientific tests show, 49 of the museum's prized "glass flowers" are really ingeniously disguised refrigerators. Informed of the find, Dean Epps declares, "How extraordinary."

June

In a Commencement Week comeback, Daniel Patrick Moynihan serves as speaker for Phi Beta Kappa, Class Day and the Associated Harvard Alumni ceremonies. Moynihan also delivers a speech for President Bok, who explains that he is too shy to talk before so many people.

A study of the class of 1972 shows that all but 15 of the graduates are now lawyers. The rest are doctors. In unveiling the study, Francis D. Fisher '47, director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, declares that graduates of the Class of 1977 will find "there are no more jobs."

University officials suspend without pay every worker in Lowell House dining hall, charging them with participating in an unauthorized walkout. The June 1 incident began when a fire raged through the dining hall's kitchen, and the workers abandoned the serving line.

July

Harvard Summer School officials express "grave concern" over the enrollment of only 21 people at the school. Ex-freshman dean and new Summer School director F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '37 announces that he hopes to rescue the school with the addition of a rigorous program in polo. "I see this as a democratic program well suited to the school's populist tradition," von Stade explains.

General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda gives Harvard $1 million for a Department of Ugandan Studies. President Bok names Daniel Patrick Moynihan to administer the department, describing the many-titled New Yorker as "a man who has demonstrated his knowledge of and sympathy for the African people." Amin also receives a special honorary degree.