May 15--Matina Horner, assistant professor of clinical psychology and best known for her work on the status of women, is named to succeed Mary I. Bunting. She is Radcliffe's youngest president.

October 5--Stephen B. Farber '63, special assistant to President Bok, releases his report on Angola after a lengthy visit there, but makes no recommendation on whether Harvard should sell its 70,000 shares of Gulf Oil.

November 7--Richard Nixon wins re-election by a landslide; Sen. George S. McGovern (D.S.D.) carries Massachusetts.

November 13--Alfred F. Pickering '74 collapses and dies in Economics 1350 from an apparent heart attack, as University Health Services arrives too late to help him.

November 28--Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, is released after being jailed for five days in the Pentagon Papers case. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, played what sources called a "highly significant" role in negotiations to free Popkin.

1973

January 11--John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, announces that he will resign at the end of the term to become director of the Cost of Living Council under President Nixon. Bok announces a search for a successor will begin soon.

January 16--In a meeting of the Board of Overseers. President Bok calls for general curriculum changes in the College.

January 24--The Crimson celebrates its 100th anniversary. Patrick R. Sorrento, shop foreman receives a standing ovation at a banquet.

February 5--The Government Department votes to stop reserving a professorship for national security adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50.

February 6--President Bok names Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, acting dean of the Faculty. He had held the post from 1962 to 1969.

February 13--The Faculty votes to continue the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) in its current form.

March 18--The Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union launches a strike to protest the newly instituted Kraus plan for financial aid to students in GSAS. During the strike's first day, class attendance drops 30 per cent. Midway through the strike, which lasts ten days. President Bok announces he does not plan to recognize the union or take action to end the strike. On March 21, the union ends the strike because of insufficient support.

April 20--President Bok announces that new House masters will be limited to terms of five years, ending the open-ended appointments that had previously existed.

May 1--President Bok names economic historian Henry Rosovsky, Taussig Research Professor of Economics, to be the permanent dean of the Faculty, starting July 1. The appointment ends a three-month search.