The Harvard and Radcliffe athletic departments officially merge. Athletic directors and Rosovsky pledge to improve athletic opportunities at Radcliffe.

1 Henry Rosovosky takes over as Dean of the Faculty.

24 Quadlings breathe a sigh of relief as shuttle service begins.

27 Harvard closes the door to transfer students for the next academic year, citing overcrowding in the Houses.

OCTOBER

1 Four people are hospitalized after a skirmish between labor leaders and members of black Vietnam veterans' group at a National Caucus of Labor Committee meeting at Phillips Brooks House.

1 Nixon nominates Republican representative Gerald Ford for the vice presidency.

5 For the first time, Harvard endorses three women applicants for the Rhodes Scholarship, an award considered to be restricted to male students.

NOVEMBER

10 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to income tax evasion.

21 The White House reveals that a key Watergate tape has an 18-minute gap. It was later revealed that the erasure was deliberate.

DECEMBER

6 Ford is sworn in as vice president.

15 The American Psychiatric Association announces that homosexuality is not a mental illness, reversing its 100-year-old position on the subject.

FEBRUARY 1974