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Timeline: 1972-1976

March 21, 1974: Harvard’s Economics department refuses to accept a committee recommendation to require Marxian theory for graduate economic students.

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April 9, 1974: Thirty-two of Harvard’s Printing Office workers go on strike for a wage increase.

April 27, 1974: About 150 students demonstrate in Forbes Plaza in support of the striking printers, who now demand a 5.9 percent increase in wages.

May 7, 1974: Typesetters join printers in their strike for wage hikes. The typesetters voted to join the local printer’s union.

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