Word: heimert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever at Harvard show administrative skills-you'll just be given another promotion," he said. When Heimert countered that wasn't that the American way of upward mobility, Murdock further explained his comment: "I didn't say a better job, but another...
Murdock, who served as both Master of Leverett House and Dean of the Faculty, illustrated his point to Heimert by telling him about how he would write letters back and forth from the Leverett House Master to the Dean of the Faculty-addressed to and signed by Murdoc himself...
Most prominent among Heimert's administrative roles was his position as a committee chair on the Committee of Fifteen, which decided the fate of the most egregious offenders of the 1969 University Hall takeover...
...this involvement which Heimert says marked him as too controversial to be selected as University president or Dean of the Faculty. Other committee members suffered the same fate, including James Q. Wilson, who ultimately left Harvard...
...Heimert's administrative involvement along with the responsibilities of being the Master of Eliot House led people to question whether he was washed...