Brainy ladies.Memo to Harvard Harvard, town (1990 pop. 12,329), Worcester co., E central Mass.; inc. 1732. A Shaker house and cemetery, a Native American museum, and a Harvard observatory are there. President Lawrence Summers Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and academic. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in macroeconomics, was Secretary of the Treasury for the last year and a half of the Bill Clinton administration, and , who got into trouble recently when he questioned whether women were biologicially suited for hard sciences: An all-female class of six chemical engineering majors has graduated from Caltech for the first time in the institute's history. The group is part of the division of chemistry and chemical engineering. Five of the Caltech grads plan to get Ph.D.s from other universities, while the sixth will enroll TO ENROLL. To register; to enter on the rolls of chancery, or other court's; to make a record. in a law program at George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. . Shannon Shannon, principal river of the Republic of Ireland and longest (c.240 mi/390 km) in the British Isles. It rises near Cuilcagh Mt., NW Co. Cavan, and flows S through the Central Plain into Co. Limerick, where it turns west in a broad estuary (c. Lewis, a member of the graduating class, said the class never felt different or special about being an all-woman group, though they did attract a good amount attention from other students and faculty. "There is some fun in being able to see people's shocked expressions when they hear of a 100 percent female graduating class in chemical engineering, of all majors, at Caltech of all places," said Haluna Gunterman, another graduating member of the class. |
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