Word: zeph
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Following a high pageantry usually experienced only at Commencement, President Pusey transferred the Lowell tippit, a Master's traditional sash of authority, from Perkins' shoulder to that of his successor, Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin. With this gesture, the 23 years of the Perkinsian Age ended and Lowell's third Mastership began...
David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, and Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin, both Yale graduates, paid tribute to Griswold as a great president of Yale...
Today the College is curious about what changes Master Zeph Stewart will make; we will hazard no guesses, and advise Freshman thinking of applying to Lowell not to try either. But certain negative predictions are possible: Master Stewart will not (alas) be able to rid the House of the infernal bells, which make Sunday mornings such a horror; and he will probably fail in any attempt to improve the food, than which there is no worse (except in Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop and Leverett...
...Zeph's Stewart's special hope is that his forthcoming duties as Master of Lowell House will not reduce his involvement in Harvard University to an involvement solely in Harvard College. Mr. Stewart, a man who likes to keep several irons in the fire, sees the neglect of scholarship as the educational administrator's easiest, and yet possibly most dangerous error; for in his view an important task of a House (and its Master) is to keep the undergraduates aware of what life is like in the rest of the University...
...above all a professional scholar," Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin, said. "In his rooms, he lived very much a lonely scholar's life. But he was a joyful and generous friend outside...