HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

October 1966 - The Institute of Politics appoints the first Kennedy Fellows, who will "spend a year or more doing individual research, thinking and talking, working on new programs, and holding undergraduate seminars." (Quotation: "Harvard Alumni Bulletin," 10/15/66)

Oct. 17, 1966 - On the top floor of Holyoke Center, 80 guests of the President and Fellows of Harvard College attend an evening celebration marking the creation of the Institute of Politics, part of the newly named John F. Kennedy School of Government (formerly, the Graduate School of Public Administration).

Among those invited are "eight members of the Kennedy family [including former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy], four Senators (two of them Kennedys), more than a dozen former officials of the Kennedy Administration, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and some of the brightest lights of the Faculty." (Quotation: "Harvard Alumni Bulletin," 10/29/66)

Oct. 14, 1976 - On the eve of Dartmouth weekend, suspiciously Hanoverian-green paint appears on the John Harvard statue.

- From the Harvard Historical Calendar, a database compiled by Marvin Hightower