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

5 Patricia Hearst, daughter of publishing mogul Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group demands $70 in food for every needy person in California for a ransom. Hearst later declares that she is joining the group of her own will and is indicted in June for her involvement in a San Francisco bank robbery.

6 Two students file a complaint with the Commission of Inquiry against Adams House Master and English 166 Professor Robert J. Kiely, claiming Adams students in the class had an unfair advantage on the final exam. Kiely revealed the format and one of the exam's questions in an Adams House review session a few days before the final.

11 Harvard's hockey team edges out Boston University in the final minutes of the Beanpot finals, winning the championship for the first time since 1969.

22 More than 100 students attend a demonstration organized by the New American Movement, protesting the presence of an on-campus recruiter from a corporation that was allegedly producing chemical weapons.

MARCH

6 The College's Committee on House Life votes to support a policy of balancing the gender of the student body with sex-blind or equal admissions.

11 Vice President Gerald R. Ford accepts a Man of the Year award from the Young Republicans at the Harvard Club of Boston. Several hundred demonstrators rally in the Yard and later surround the building, chanting "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford."

APRIL

8 Henry "Hank" Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record with his 715th career homer.

19 Harvard printers in the Graphic Arts International Union voice pay demands to the University and continue a lengthy strike. More than 120 students rally in support of the printers.

28 A fire caused by a lit cigarette guts a suite in Lowell House and sends one student to the hospital. Fire alarms in Lowell House failed to function, leaving most residents unaware of the flames until police arrived.

MAY

6 Typesetters join the printer's strike, now four weeks long. Students continue to demonstrate on behalf of the striking employees.

15 Union fever catches on as the University's clerical and technical workers consider organizing unions, much like their Medical School counterparts did two days before.

JUNE

13 The Class of 1974 attends their commencement ceremony as Radcliffe students and members of NAM hold demonstrations.