Word: heimert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...near 50-year veteran of College life and a scholar of early American literature and culture, Heimert, students and colleagues say, is wholly traditionalist--one of the last, great defenders of Old Harvard...
...Heimert's move, along with the decision of Currier House Master Gregory Nagy to step down at year's end, leaves two houses in limbo as they search for masters...
Critics say Jewett's system of "non-ordered choice" threatens to neutralize the distinctive characters of certain houses (Eliot's Heimert has been a strong opponent of limited choice). But the drawbacks of non-ordered choice seem minimal when compared with the prospect of a totally-randomized house assignment system--a plan which Jewett has said he personally favors...
That vague job description is elaborated upon by 23-year veteran Heimert in a booklet distributed to Eliot House residents. The master, he writes, "is charged with promoting the House's 'general welfare' (the senior tutor is officially responsible for the particular). What the 'general welfare' involves, and how it is promoted, are questions to which the answers seem to change annually or even, it sometime seems, from month to month...
...Heimert described his role as offering encouragement and occasional advice, but he writes that he and his wife "have been, for the most part, cheerleaders...