He loved the Signet Society and the communal table at the Harvard Faculty Club, she said.

Buckley said he remembers Hammond’s impressive knowledge of the subject matter in his survey course of latin literature and language.

“He let the material speak for itself. He had a senatorian voice, we all paid attention,” Buckley said.

Hammond’s commanding voice served the University at Commencement, where he was the “caller” who calls the classes to parade.

“One of his great loves was using his own voice to call together all of the sons of Harvard. He was mortified when he was asked to use a bullhorn,” Krueck said.

After retiring from Harvard, Hammond devoted himself to Harvard’s history. He researched the inscriptions above all of Harvard’s gates, stained glass windows on campus and the history of the Lowell House bells.

He undertook a massive project to compile and translate all the Latin inscriptions in and around the Harvard campus.

Hammond remained a well-known campus figure, who rode his bicycle everywhere and regularly attended Morning Prayer.

“Mason was the one who drew me in and got me interested. He was very faithful,” said Elliot Forbes, the Peabody professor of music emeritus.

Today the front pew in Memorial Church is called the Hammond row in his honor.

“He was a quintessential gentleman and a source of great encouragement,” Buckley said.

“He was a 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.

Stewart said Hammond had hoped to live until his 100th birthday, on Valentine’s Day.

Hammond is survived by his three daughters Florence Hammond Phillips, Anstiss Hammond Kruek, and Elizabeth Hammond Llewellyn, five grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren.

His funeral is scheduled for Oct. 22, 11 a.m. in Memorial Church.