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...Heimert claims that as house master, he encountered a number "tragic instances of people...brought here to Harvard to build up the numbers and can't keep their head above water...
...There were a certain number of mad geniuses, eccentric poets, kookie people--all of them full of a lot of vitality," says Heimert. "Actors and flamboyant people, I feel there are fewer of those now. Maybe if I were Master of Adams House I wouldn't feel [that...
...Heimert attacks the "superficial" diversity which he says the admissions office has artificially imposed on the College...
...undergraduate days, Heimert says, "You were interested in what peoples' interests were--not in some demographic census definition of them...
...think that diversity is a positive step in so far as the diversity does not become...so much a priority that in order to achieve diversity you sacrifice something else," says Heimert. "Sometimes you wonder whether the admissions committee hasn't pushed it a little...