Word: eckes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courtyard, the undergraduates dressed in better-than-normal attire and the tutors and administration sporting their academic robes. But while some of the seniors might have hoped that C-Day had come early, the occasion for ceremony was instead the installation of the new masters of Lowell, Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin...
...thing about tradition, though, is that, at its best, it fosters community and bridges the gap between the past and the future. What made Sunday's installation of Masters Eck and Austin so successful (besides the glorious weather and the tasty food) was that as a new ritual, it mixed history and promise, memory and hope. It was, for a few moments in the sun on Sunday, a mind-expanding experience, as we heard stories of some good times past and anticipated similar ones in the future...
...ceremony assembled members of the Harvard administration and of the Lowell Senior Common Room, many of whom gave toasts to Eck and Austin. One tangible symbol of tradition was the presentation by the Lowell House Committee of the official "Lowell salt," a silver, Stanley-Cup-shaped salt shaker whose presence is required at high table...
...passing. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus and former Master of Lowell Zeph Stewart was one of those raising their glasses to the self-named "Lady Masters of Lowell House." Noting a link between past and present leadership, he offered a blessing in Sanskrit, a language both he and Eck love. Other speakers invoked the names of past Lowell leaders, including first senior tutor Pope Professor of Latin Emeritus Mason Hammond and first master Julian Lowell Coolidge. Plummer Professor of Morals Peter J. Gomes spoke eloquently of the importance of teamwork in the Masters' residence and used the Greek word...
...Shepard's death, Lowell House Co-Masters Dorothy A. Austin and Diana L. Eck had the House bells rung 22 times...