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...course her freshman year, Sandra A. Naddaff ’75 stopped attending class. But she was able to find the saving grace of her first-year college experience in the intimate intellectual outlet of her freshman seminar.Naddaff recalls the excitement of delving into a discussion on Virgil with Zeph Stewart, the legendary Harvard classics professor and former Lowell House master, while his wife would serve tea out of a silver teapot. Naddaff’s freshman seminar brought her into the upperclassman House at a time when women still lived in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.Today, over 30 years later...
...friends and family of longtime Classics professor Zeph Stewart gathered Friday to pay their respects to the former Lowell House Master, filling Memorial Church with Harvard alumni, Classics Department affiliates, and Lowell notables. Stewart, who passed away on December 1 at the age of 86, was praised for his 12 years of service as a house master, his five-year term as chair of the Classics Department, and his central role in reviving Harvard University Press’s Classical Library, which publishes English translations of Greek and Latin texts. But Stewart’s record of humility and caring...
...when the time came, Zeph Stewart, the legendary Harvard classics professor and former Lowell House master who passed away at 86 this Saturday, wasn’t ready to give up the new members of his House’s community...
...first ones that volunteered to cooperate were Zeph and [his wife] Diana,” Abernathy said. “And that leadership, that first step when people said, ‘This is the camel’s nose under the tent’...that was the first step to cause the gender integration of Harvard...
...person of unshakeable integrity and loyalty and a deep commitment to scholarship, family, friends, and institutions,” said Zeph Stewart, the Mellon professor of humanities emeritus and Hammond’s close friend...