1929
The Student Council criticizes the administration’s plan to erect one of the newly endowed Houses east of DeWolfe Street, arguing that the future Dunster House will be too far from such “immovable centers” as Widener, Mallinckrodt Laboratory, and the University Museum.
1934
The Bulletin publishes a list of nearly two hundred books Widener Library cannot afford to buy because of the Depression, prompting gifts of books and money from Bulletin readers.
1949
Statistics compiled by the Alumni Records Office indicate that “John Harvard,” for the first time, lives west of the Hudson River: 50.5 percent of Harvard graduates now live outside New England and New York State, and their number is growing.
1954
The College announces that maids will no longer make students’ beds, the first step in phasing out a housekeeping arrangement that began 295 years earlier.
1969
The Faculty votes to withdraw academic credit for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps activities at Harvard—home of the country’s oldest ROTC program.
1984
The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra confirms plans to perform in the Soviet Union during a three-week tour of Europe, with appearances in Moscow, Leningrad, and possibly Kiev. Its visit will be the first by a Harvard performing group.
2004
Law School dean Elena Kagan decides on the spur of a frozen January moment to flood the field by Harkness Commons to form a skating rink that will remain open “until it melts.”
2009
Harvard men’s basketball records its first win over a nationally ranked opponent, Boston College (which had beaten the nation’s top team only a week before), as shooting guard Jeremy Lin ’10 scores 27 points and makes eight assists and six steals.
