This is a highly subjective and definitely incomplete chronology of the Bok years at Harvard. Culled primarily from back issues of The Crimson, it represents an overview, not a summary of the first decade of Harvard's 25th president.

1971

September 1--University Health Services begin offering walk-in gynecological treatment for women.

September 20--Ernest R. May, dean of the College, Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the School of Education, and John Peterson Elder, dean of GSAS, submit their resignations, as Derek C. Bok begins his first academic year as president. He announces the creation of two new associate deans of the Faculty, one concerned with graduate education, the other concerned with undergraduate education.

September 28--President Nixon signs a draft bill which makes men in the class of '75--that year's incoming freshmen--the first undergraduates since World War II to be subject to military induction.

1972

January 28--Three Harvard lawyers help anti-Vietnam War activist Daniel Berrigan win parole after his conviction for burning draft cards.

February 9--The Great Term Paper Scandal erupts, when 40 term papers are stolen from professors' offices over intercession and sold to a New York term-paper-selling firm.

February 24--Black students hold a "mill-in" at University Hall to urge President Bok to divest Harvard's holding in Gulf Oil, which they say "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans" by its investments in the former Portuguese colony of Angola.

March 7--Richard J. Hermstein, professor of Psychology, on the defensive for his beliefs that I.Q.s vary significantly among racial groups, flees a crowd of 20 people who followed him from a morning class.

March 16--President Bok approves a new housing plan which--for the first time--puts freshman women in the Yard and upperclass men at the Radcliffe Quad.

March 26--Black students, still protesting Harvard investments in Gulf, place 500 black crosses in the Yard, between University and Mass Hills.

April 18--To protest the Vietnam war, 150 protestors ransack the Center for International Studies, causing $25,000 in damage.

April 20--President Bok announces the decision not to sell Harvard stock in Gulf, prompting Black activists to occupy Mass Hall. With the freshmen who live there relocated to a nearby hotel, the 33 demonstrators occupy the building for seven days before ending their protest.

April 30--During a national anti-war strike. Harvard attendance falls to 25 per cent of normal levels.