Word: heimert
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...Heimert quickly discovered his affinity for American history, but even as he completed his senior thesis on Abraham Lincoln he had not yet decided to enter the world of academia...
Intent on attending law school, Heimert applied and was accepted to Harvard Law School in the December of his senior year. After completing his thesis, he hopped over to the law school to see what lay ahead...
Ulimately, however, Heimert's pessisism about the state of academic affairs moves beyond mere rhetorical gestures. He says now if he was faced with the same choice upon graduation, he would have attended the law school. And while he cannot retrace his steps, his daughter, Larisa, who attended Yale Law School for the "intellectual enterprise" it offered ultimately rejected the world of academia because it lacked the same freedom...
...responding to the entry of mere cleverness [into academia] that had taken over," Heimert says...
...Heimert feels that the lack of respect for the past was epitomized in the September, 1997 dedication of the Barker Center for the Humanities, which unified disparate humanities departments but divided the Great Hall of the Freshman Union...