Word: finley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHN H. FINLEY, Eliot; House Committee, Chairman, '57-'58; House Drama; Varsity Club; Hasty Pudding; Junior usher; J. V. crew; House hockey, soccer, swimming...
...Some of the most refreshing people at Harvard are transfers. Harvard ought to liberalize the transfer operation greatly," says John U. Monro '34, Director of Financial Aid and a member of the Committee on Admissions. John H. Finley, Jr., '25, Master of Eliot House adds, In general the people who have the gimp to get out of another college are prima facie good people. I am very kindly disposed to transfer students...
...spite of this difficult adjustment, the transfer usually has enough intelligence and maturity to master his new environment. The change is not made immediately, however. As Master Finley says, "Socially these people have a much harder time of it. Freshmen meet many of their friends brushing their teeth in the comunal bathrooms of their freshman dorms. Transfers do not have the social opportunities of the freshman year...
Eliot: John H. Finley III, Richard M. Sallick, and David H. Wallace. Kirkland: David M. Busse, Larry R. Johnson, Marvin E. Lewis, Robert S. November, and Harold P. Peterson...
Thus a feeling of isolated, individual dignity has been superimposed upon Conway's highly developed intellect. Many of the students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...