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Dirk M. Killen '82--the senior tutor in Pforzheimer House whose dissertation was advised by Heimert--recalled the Puritan scholar's devotion to Houses as the center of undergraduate education...
...Heimert's Life and Times...
...Heimert was born in Oak Park, Ill., on Nov. 10, 1928. His family soon moved to nearby Chicago and finally to suburban Elmhurst where he attended York Community High School...
...Heimert arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate in 1945. He wrote his senior thesis on Abraham Lincoln, a subject he returned to last year in an undergraduate seminar...
After completing a master's degree at Columbia, Heimert returned to Harvard to receive a Ph.D in 1960. Heimert was married two years later in Appleton Chapel to Arline I. Grimes '59, whom he met when she was still an undergraduate...