In the afternoon, he met with Mass. Hall staff members, and held a meeting of University vice presidents and assistant provosts in Mass. Hall’s Perkins Room before attending a brief reception to mark his new job.

The idea of actually being Harvard president was taking some time to sink in, Summers commented.

He recounted that Sunday afternoon he began to say to a friend “When I’m president of Harvard…,” before his friend stopped him to point out that it was 2 p.m., and Summers had been president for 14 hours.

Indeed, after ten years of having Rudenstine as president, the University did not make the switch entirely perfectly.

By the end of the day Tuesday, the main University online directory still listed Rudenstine as University president. By Thursday the problem was fixed.

Around 2 p.m. Monday, four members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) stopped and presented Summers’ staff with a pizza for the new president. On the top the pizza read “Living Wage and WRC now”—a reference to the Workers’ Right Coalition, an anti-sweatshop monitoring group PSLM wants Harvard to join.

PSLM member Amy Offner ’01 said the group wished to meet with Summers soon to discuss the issue of a “living wage” for University employees. PSLM held a three-week long sit-in in Mass. Hall this spring to bring attention to the issue.

Summers has yet to take a stand on the issue.

—Staff writer Garrett M. Graff can be reached at ggraff@fas.harvard.edu.