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The inductees of the honorary academic society also listened as Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver recited a poem during the morning ceremony.
Eck also introduced Oliver, who in addition to the Pulitzer has received a National Book Award, as well as fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
“I think the strongest word I ever heard him use was ‘damn,’” Oliver says.
“If ever I knew a saint, in terms of personal virtue, I think that he was the one,” Oliver said. “I’m not sure St. Francis would have made a good archbishop, though.”
Zobel, who was forced to retire in February 2002 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, says he feels fortunate to have served as a judge and will continue to write about the law by examining the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedures and publishing a book on the...