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Timeline

1956--Clock tower of Memorial Hall destroyed in fire

1956--$40 million construction fund begins for Leverett, Mather, Quincy

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1960--Radcliffe creates first research center, later named Bunting Institute

1961--John F. Kennedy '40 appoints four Harvard men to Cabinet

1961--"Diploma riots" protest switch to English from Latin

1963--First baby boomers enter Harvard; applicant pool surges

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