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Delta asked “Who is Summers and what is all this fuss about?” Beta reported: Lawrence H. Summers took office as Harvard's 27th President on July 1, 2001. His election by the President and Fellows of Harvard College with the counsel and consent of the Board of Overseers was announced on March 11, 2001...

Harvard College had been established in 1636 and was named after its first benefactor, John Harvard of Charlestown, a young minister who upon his death in 1638, left his library and half his land to the new institution...

Phi who had slipped out, came in briskly and sat down. After taking out a sheaf of papers, which looked like photocopies of some journals, she started, “I was reading an issue of Business Week recently and they had summarized some important statistics”...

Phi said that since the present discussion was about women's position in an academic institution, it would only be appropriate to discuss issues of academic administration. The primary function of universities was to ask questions and to advance knowledge, popular or otherwise...

It was only a hundred years ago that then-Harvard President Charles Eliot refused to admit women to the college on the grounds that they would waste precious resources. Things had changed but not all that much since then...

Exhibit 1: Career of Lawrence Summers
Exhibit 2: History of Harvard University

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