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Cramer, who was the outgoing president of The Crimson at the time, wrote an article criticizing Alan Heimert ’49, then the influential chair of the English department and a former History and Literature teaching fellow, for misleading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Heimert had spoken out against expanding the History and Literature department, which some considered elitist and too selective, warning that if the department opened up its enrollment, the student-faculty ratio would rise...
...trusted professor, whom Cramer would not name, came to him in his last days of senior year with the news that Heimert had told faculty members during a closed session of the History and Literature department that he’d “buffaloed” the Faculty into believing that this ratio rise would actually happen...
Neither Bossert nor Heimert claim they ever truly experienced “normal” family life. Heimert boarded at Phillips Exeter after she turned 13, then went directly to Princeton. Bossert lived in Austria with his family for a year prior to his parents’ appointment as Masters. After his graduation from Carleton, he returned to the free room and board of Lowell House for several years, during which time he held down a day job while playing in a rock band. (He now lives in Germany.) His younger sister Sarah, who also grew up in Lowell, graduated...
Would Bossert and Heimert raise their children in Harvard Houses today if given the opportunity? “If it meant living there myself, surely!” Bossert answers promptly. But then he pauses to reflect. “I’d have to be convinced that Harvard valued the House system in the way my parents and my whole family did, as a community in which learning happened,” he adds. Heimert equivocates: “I think it would be very important to set clear boundaries between the public aspects...