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1900--Phillips Brooks House opens
1903--First Yale Game played in new Stadium
1904--Harvard and MIT attempt to merge; deal falls through
1905--Harvard expedition searches for hidden treasures in Egypt
1906--First concentration, History and Literature, founded
1906--Medical School dedicates Longwood campus
1908--Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club puts on its first show
1909--A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, becomes 22nd president
1910--Crimson designated Harvard's official color
1911--Harvard Medical School starts short-lived China campus
1914--Chemist T. W. Richards, Class of 1886, is first Harvard Nobelist
1915--e. e. cummings '15, T. S. Eliot '04 form Poetry Society
1916--With war in Europe, first Harvard chapter of ROTC forms
1916--Tuition rises--to a record $200
1920--Graduate School of Education opens doors
1921--Radcliffe students allowed to ride unchaperoned with men in cars
1922--Lowell attempts to impose Jewish quota
1924--John Harvard statue moved to University Hall
1926--First SAT administered as experiment
1927--Reading period adopted
1931--Students given clerical jobs to fight Depression
1932--Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, elected President in landslide
1933--James B. Conant '14 becomes 23rd president
1935--Corporation establishes University professorships
1936--Gala celebration of Harvard's 300th birthday
1937--Nieman fellowships for journalists endowed
1938--City Council considers motion to make Harvard separate city
1940--Radcliffe agrees to house war refugees in Quad
1941--Fogg Museum prepares for bomb attack
1942--Mandatory wartime exercise program aids "physical hardening"
1943--Winston Churchill made honorary Doctor of Laws
1946--Wartime joint education of classes made permanent
1946--Postwar surge of veterans causes housing crunch
1948--Crimson Key Society welcomes first visitors
1948--Helen Maud Cam, historian, becomes first woman professor in FAS
1949--Lamont Library opens doors
1951--Enrollment drops by one-third during Korean War
1952--Corporation allocates $1 million for Allston Burr Senior Tutors
1953--Nathan M. Pusey '28 becomes 24th president
1956--Clock tower of Memorial Hall destroyed in fire
1956--$40 million construction fund begins for Leverett, Mather, Quincy
1960--Radcliffe creates first research center, later named Bunting Institute
1961--John F. Kennedy '40 appoints four Harvard men to Cabinet
1961--"Diploma riots" protest switch to English from Latin
1963--First baby boomers enter Harvard; applicant pool surges
1966--Students blockade Dow Chemical recruiter to protest war
1967--Institute of Politics founded at Kennedy School
1969--After student takeover, University Hall cleared by police
1970--New Currier House is considered architectural cutting edge
1971--Derek C. Bok becomes 25th president
1972--Bok changes College's gender ratio from 4:1 to 2.5:1
1972--Matina Horner, 32, becomes Radcliffe's youngest president ever
1972--Massive new Science Center opens
1977--Radcliffe and Harvard sign "merger-non-merger" deal
1978--Huge blizzard causes first weather closure ever
1980--Student activists campaign for Third World Center
1982--Kermit the Frog addresses Commencement crowd
1984--First capital campaign ends; $358 million raised
1985--Students protest against Harvard investment in South Africa
1986--Harvard Foundation hosts first Cultural Rhythms
1986--350th anniversary celebrated with three formal convocations
1987--Women's studies becomes committee on degrees
1991--Neil L. Rudenstine becomes 26th president
1993--At rally, Rev. Peter J. Gomes says he's "a Christian who happens as well to be gay"
1993--Yard dorms wired for Internet access
1995--Two dead in Dunster House murder-suicide
1996--Loker Commons designed as low-key student center
1997--Union-turned-Barker Center promotes inter-departmental collaboration
1998--Nelson Mandela receives honorary degree
1999--Radcliffe and Harvard merge, form Radcliffe Institute
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