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Harvard: 1966 to 1970
1966
September 1966--Michael J. Barrett '70 enrolls at Harvard College
November 1966--Board of Overseers approves plans to build Mather House.
1968
April 1968--Comencement Speaker Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
1969
April 1969--Students take over University Hall to protest ROTC.
October 1969--Faculty votes to condemn Vietnam War.
November 1969--Students arrange sit-in at the office of the Dean of the College Ernest R. May. Sixteen students are ultimately expelled for their participation
1970
June 1970--First joint Harvard-Radcliffe Commencement is planned.
Michael J. Barrett '70 graduates.
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