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Former Eliot Master Alan E. Heimert '49 has never been an advocate of major changes in Harvard, an institution he first arrived at almost 50 years...
...Heimert, who lorded over Eliot House for 23 years, has retired to a comfortable room in the History and Literature concentration office, but still believes that the "old" ways of College life are the best...
...Maybe I just don't have the knack to keep the old alive anymore and to resist some of these changes," says Heimert, who has chaired the History department, English department, and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature. "In a way, I felt I was in a situation where I was spending most of my time trying to fight off what I thought were bad things instead of being able to concentrate my energies on what I thought was good...
Former Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot professor of American literature, agrees. "The vision of the houses as laced with faculty is a bit of myth," says Heimert...
...Heimert, who is teaching a house seminar on Abraham Lincoln this semester, says that there are a number of relatively easy measures that could be taken to increase academic interaction on the house level. For instance, he suggests, the creation of house sections for large Core classes would be one step in this direction...