October 7--Fifty students prevent the Adams House Film Society from showing D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation," saying that they object to the film's treatment of the Ku Klux Klan.

November 11--The Rev. Peter J. Gomes becomes the first Black minister in Memorial Church.

November 12--Harvard ran a $1 million deficit and the market value of its endowment declined from $1.35 to $1.19 billion in the past fiscal year, the Board of Overseers financial report says.

1975

January 17--Harvard announces the establishment of a joint Harvard-Iran commission to formulate plans for a proposed graduate level university in Iran. It is never built.

February 7--The Kennedy Library Corporation announces it will not buld the museum portion of its $27 million memorial in Cambridge, after fierce community opposition to the project,

September 15--Dunkin Donurs is barred from opening in Harvard Square because a Cambridge law restricts the growth of fast food restaurants.

September 24--Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) discloses that Harvard was one of several institutions whose mail was illegally opened under a 20-year mail surveillance program conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency.

September 25--Giogio Napolitano, head of the culture section of the Italian communist party--who had been invited by the Government Department to lecture at the Center for European Studies--is denied a visa by the State Department on the grounds that he represents a danger to the national interest.

October 3--Two thieves walk off with a $10,000 Oriental rug from the Adams House Junior Common Room in the middle of the afternoon. Two students saw the incident but do not realize it was a theft. The stolen rug is recovered on October 9, though the thieves had cut it into two pieces, apparently thinking they could sell it more easily in small pieces.

October 14--The City of Cambridge announces plans to file suit against Harvard for the cost of repairs to the Kirkland St. underpass, built by Harvard. City officials say the tunnel was built with improperly installed water seals, and that the present project, fixing water leaks, cost Cambridge $200,000.

October 21--A study by David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology, shows that the fear of success increases among Radcliffe women from freshman to senoior year, but declines among Harvard men.

October 23--The price war between Gnomon Copy and Copy Cat Educational Services flares in the Square, with Gnomon picketers distributing fliers saying that Copy Cat, located in J. August, is copying far below cost to drive the competition out of business.

November 6--The State Secretary of Environmental Affairs rejects the final environmental impact report on MATEP.

November 22--Harvard captures the Ivy football championship for the first time ever by crunching Yale, 10-7.