These reports of events long ago are extremely disturbing. They are part of a past that we have rightly left behind. I want to express our deep regret for the way this situation was handled, as well as the anguish the students and their families must have experienced eight decades ago.

 

Harvard President Lawrence Summers on the expulsion of gay students and faculty in the 1920s, 2002

 

So my best guess, to provoke you... is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination.

 

Harvard President Lawrence Summers on women in science and engineering, 2005