Tuition, room and board costs rise from $275 to $4,745.

Febuary 11, 1972

Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38 asks for current first-years to volunteer to live in the Yard as advisers to the incoming class, foreshadowing the current prefect program.

Febuary 24, 1972

About 50 black protesters, most of the them Harvard students, stage a mill-in at University Hall to demand that Harvard divest itself of its 680,000 shares of Gulf Oil stock. They charge that Gulf, through investment in Portugese colonies in Africa, "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans."

March 4, 1972

President Bok ruptures his Achilles tendon during a basketball game against Crimson editors.

March 16, 1972

President Bok approves a plan to house first-year women in Harvard Yard for the first time.

April 12, 1972

With 34 Law School professors, President Bok sends a letter to Congress that calls. President Nixon's busing proposals "a failure in leadership" and warns that "the two bills, if enacted, would sacrifice the enforcement of constitutional rights, impair the functions of the judiciary under a rule of law, and jeopardize the improved schooling for many, many children."

April 16, 1972

A People's Coalition for Peace and Justice antiwar demonstration turns into a near-riot. About 125 people, only a few of them Harvard students, ransack the Center for International Affairs, inflicting $20,000 to $25,000 in damages before police and firement disperse them and clear Harvard Squre with tear gas.

April 19, 1972

President Bok announces that the Harvard Corporation will not sell its stock in the Gulf Oil Company. Instead, the Corporation will ask Gulf to set forth its plan for improving its employment, training and management policies. Also, the University will send a fact finder to Angola.