Word: professors
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...Cabot professor of American literature and former master of Eliot House had been on leave this year, following a series of health problems over the past few years. Heimert suffered a stroke in 1997, the same year in which students awarded him the Levenson award for teaching excellence...
...role model of rigor and high expectations. He set a lofty standard and challenged students to do their best," said Lawrence Buell, Marquand professor of English and Heimert's longtime colleague...
Heimert then went on to serve as master of Eliot House from 1968 to 1991. He was succeeded by the current masters Stephen A. Mitchell, professor of Scandanavian literature and folklore, and Kristin L. Forsgard, but maintained an office in the House and taught a House seminar on the witches of Salem...
...dared to do things that hardly any other Harvard professor would think of today, like glower at and castigate a student who hadn't done the requisite reading," Mitchell said...
...Puritan vocabulary, he gave me my calling," said Andrew H. Delbanco '73, who wrote his doctoral dissertation under Heimert and is now a professor of the humanities at Columbia University...