Word: eck
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Following the speeches, members of Phi Beta Kappa and their guests attended an informal lunch at Dudley. The lunch was to be following with a “secret ritual,” said Diana L. Eck, a Harvard professor who is the president of Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter...
After reviewing the proposal in detail, Eck said, department faculty felt that emphasis on South Asian studies might be lost in an Asian Languages and Civilizations department that is structured—as East Asian Languages and Civilizations now is—according to methodological discipline rather than by region...
...seemed that it might dilute our own energies by merging with a much larger faculty in East Asia, a faculty that also is trying to overcome its regional emphasis towards a more disciplinary emphasis,” Eck said...
...seemed to be a proposal that implied the way to strengthen smaller departments was merging them with larger ones,” Eck said. “Both departments would have had to give up their identities. The issue had not been discussed widely outside of Sanskrit and East Asian. It seemed that the breadth of consultation on the wisdom of this had not been sufficiently wide to go ahead at this time...
...Eck said Sanskrit felt that gains in new appointments would be outweighed by the loss of its independence...