COLLEGE'S WAR CHRONOLOGY

DECEMBER 8, 1941--University announces no fundamental changes on day following Pearl Harbor. Student Body gathers in Sanders Theatre to hear President ask Congress for war. Faculty members ask for united effort. Jap students here interned. Forum of President Conant, Ralph Barton Perry, Dean Landis, and Loren MacKinney '42 pledge united support of college.

DECEMBER 9--Trial air raid, first in Harvard history, finds college on alert.

DECEMBER 16--Year-round curriculum adopted by Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Freshmen to be admitted in June, 1942. Phillip Gazecki '41, naval ensign, first member of the Alumni to die in World War 11.

JANUARY 5, 1942--Harvard Medical Unit, composed of doctors and nurses of the Harvard University Health Service, le called to active duty. Dean Donham of the Business School announce the B School's war program.

JANUARY 6--Students who plan to leave school before graduation in order to enter service, are granted war certificates by administrative board.

JANUARY 13--Freshmen of the Class of '46 permitted to enter at mid-years.

JANUARY 18--College plans to permit Freshman participation in inter collegiate athletics.

Karl Lange, first member of the faculty to be interned by the F. B. I., is taken into custody at East Boston.

FEBRUARY 4--Law School votes to award war degrees.

FEBRUARY 11--Faculty votes to begin compulsory conditioning program.

MARCH 5--University blacks out in first perfect trial air-raid test.

MARCH 18--Navy approves Harvard application for V-1 program.

MARCH 26--Men in Military Science 1 and 2 required to attend summer session.

APRIL 29--President Conant, addressing student body at Sanders Theatre, says armed forces come first.

MAY 20--Details of ERC Plan released.

MAY 26--University reveals Navy occupation of Yard for duration. General Hershey tells College audience every able man must aid war effort.

JULY 19--University announces chaplain training to take place at Divinity School.

AUGUST 28--First Navy Indoctrination course graduates class today.

SEPTEMBER 25--Freshman registration for fall term begins.

OCTOBER 7--President Conant urges total conversion of education facilities to war training.

Washington announce plan to draft eighteen-year-olds.

NOVEMBER 23--Spring vacation cancelled by Dean's Office, Exam period and Commencement date moved forward.

DECEMBER 3--University reveals plan to allows inductees to take exams before Christmas and receive credit for fall courses.