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1969--1970

A Timeline

September

Tuition is raised form $ 2000 to $2400 and board from $640 to $720.

In its first year, Afro-American Studies attracts 22 concentrators, five of whom are white.

The Weathermen, a militant spin-off SDS's New Left caucus, violently disrupt the Center for International Affairs, injuring several and breaking windows.

October

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A National Moratorium is held on the fifteenth to protest Vietnam. Classes are canceled, and students and faculty protest. President Nathan M. Pusey '28, like President Nixon, remains in his office and works all day.

Pusey refuses to sign a protest against the war. 79 other college presidents sign it, including Mary I. Bunting, the President of Radcliffe.

With 736 students, Hum 7, taught by Professor William Alfred, is the most popular course in the University for the second year running. John Kenneth Galbraith's class on "The Modern Industrial Society" came in second.

November

Sesame Street, created by twelve Harvard professors, debuted on national television. It was a smash hit.

Yale beats Harvard 7-0.

More than 1000 Harvard students and faculty participate in the Washington D.C. peace protest, which attracted a quarter of a million people. Former Harvard professor of psychology Timothy Leary calls the event "out of sight."

SDS and BSFA sit-in at University Hall, trapping Dean May for over an hour, until Black students escorted him out.

December

The Rolling Stones come to Boston.

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