April 20, 1972

Two dozen black protesters seize Massachusetts Hall at dawn in protest of the Corporation's Gulf Oil Decision. That night, a meeting of 2,000 students in Sanders Theatre calls for a five-day strike against the war and in support of the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) seizure of Mass. Hall.

April 21, 1972

Class attendence is about 25 percent. A deputy sherriff reads a temporary restraining order to the Mass. Hall protesters.

April 26, 1972

PALC protesters march out of Mass. Hall, their fists thrust upward, in a proud but less-than-victorious end to the 153-hour occupation, the longest in Harvard's history.

May 3, 1972

President Bok announces that the Harvard Corporation voted in favor of two disclosure resolutions filed with the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation. It is the first time the University has voted against management in a proxy fight.

May 15, 1972

The Radcliffe Board of Trustees confirms that Matina S. Horner has been appointed the next president of Radcliffe. The announcement follows a year-long search for a replacement for Mary I. Bunting.

May 15, 1972

President Bok declines an invitation to a party thrown by President Nixon. Bok, in Washington to meet with other Ivy League presidents and to lobby against the Vietnam War, says, "My wife and I both felt uncomfortable given the President's decision on the bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of the harbors."

June 7, 1972

The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities decides not to require the withdrawal of any of the 34 students who seized Mass. Hall.

June 13, 1972

The 21 students who last November won the right to vote in Cambridge after a court challenge, receive letters informing them that the Cambridge Board of Election Commissioners is removing their names from the voters' list.

June 15, 1972

Commencement echoes the past year: some 4,200 graduates march into Tercentenary Theatre concurrent with four student protests.