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Eliot House sophomores now living in Canaday Hall are protesting a housing plan that they say will deny them the rooming preference that Alan E. Heimert '49, master of Eliot House, promised them last fall...
...similar vein, Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature and a student of Miller's, has discussed the "declension" of Massachusetts Bay Puritanism in terms of its shift in emphasis from spiritual well-being to material prosperity--a shift reflected by the jeremiads, sermons of the 1660s that preach virtue as a means of averting crop failure...
...attachment of the Miller-Heimert school to historical fact--as imaged in the writings of Puritan divines--has obliged it to account the Puritan errand at least a partial failure. For these historians, the corruption of the communal vision led inevitably to the separation of individual and communal salvation. Not so for Bercovitch. By shifting his emphasis from historical fact to the language itself, Bercovitch can support the continued coincidence of the two. In The Puritan Origins of the American Self, facts have ceased to matter at all--what counts instead is the distinctive Puritan rhetoric tying the redeemed individual...
...number of students graduating with honors is reactionary in more than its effect on pass-fail. Raising the honors standards can only be interpreted as a move against students, who already have a great deal of pressure on them to produce. And the Faculty's vote to accept Professor Heimert's amendment moving the effective dates of the legislation forward a year--without even asking members of the Administrative Board or the Faculty Council why both bodies voted unanimously against it--shows great irresponsibility toward those students already enrolled in the College, many of whom have already planned a course...
...vote on Heimert's amendment were close--it came in two parts, one for the summa and the other for the rest, and each section passed by less than five votes. But no one even asked the members of the Administrative Board or the Faculty Council why they had voted unanimously against it in earlier straw votes, nor did the Faculty discuss sophomores already enrolled in honors programs...