Word: finley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Widener, followed by a sleigh-ride through the Yard. The IAB pool would stand awash with hot-buttered rum, and Memorial Hall would become a Yule log. Arthur Darby Nock would stroll along Mass. Ave. in a red suit roaring boistrous laughter, while townies pelted him with snowballs. John Finley would be especially jolly, God blessing every Dunster man, and section-men would scamper about putting a blue-book in every stocking, while Dean Leighton would smile serenely down upon the holiday scene...
Levin added to his own legend by several Herculean feats in other activities. During his senior year, for instance, he was managing a production of 'Sophocles' Philoctetes which the Classics Club (John Finley, President) was presenting, when their Odysseus became ill a few days before curtain time. Levin had never studied Greek in his life, but he somehow succeeded in memorizing the lengthy part, and the result, in Millman Perry's exuberant terms, was "the best performance of a Greek tragedy since the fifth century...
...plan for the Eliot Drama Group was conceived with the warm approval of last year's acting master, Mr. Archibald MacLeish. The production this year has been greatly assisted by the master, Mr. John Finley. Donald Tashjian '55, Pres., Eliot Drama Group
...Temporary things have a strange way of growing permanent," stated John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, "and one looks with some feat on this change. I do feel that the question of Harvard's remote future has got to be faced. In other words, this change would not alter the continued need for another House...
Number four oarsman Geoffrey Locke won the Bruce Finley Vanderveer Trophy which goes annually to the man making the greatest contribution to the freshman boat. Junior Jack Lapsley was elected varsity captain for the 1956 season...