MARCH 7

Harvard announce that would consolidate its four biological institutions to centralize plant studies and help alleviate a shortage of funds. The move consolidated the Botanical Museum, the Farlow Library and Herbarium, the Gray Herbarium, and parts of the Arnold Arboretum to form the Harvard University Herbaria.

MARCH 8

The Statistics department, one of the University's smallest concentrations, announces a long-range expansion plan aimed at increasing the number of senior faculty members and beefing up computer facilities.

They also announced the tenure appointment of Donald B. Rubin, a leading social science statistician from the University of Chicago.

He became only the second professor to receive tenure in the department since 1961 and the fifth in the department 26-year history.

APRIL 4

A Harvard expedition in Kenya, led by Professor of Anthropology Davd Pilbream, discovers the world's oldest "man".

The two inch jawbone fragment that was unearthed dates back five million years--a million years earlier than any other previously discovered hominid, or member of the human family.

APRIL 10

President Bok announces the appointment of Professor of Health Policy and Public. Managemnt Harvey V. Fineberg as the new dean of the School of Public Health.

The appointment ended an eight month search to fill the position which was held previously by Dean Howard H. Hratt '44.

APRIL 23

Almost 50 demonstrators begin a 24-hour vigil at the Medical School to protest Harvard's use of animals in laboratory experiments.

Mobilization for Animals--an organization dedicated to the complete cessation of the use of animals in scientific experiments-targeted. Harvard as part of a larger nationwide series of protests against animal research.