Word: finley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposed to Bermuda shorts and are forcing their inhibitions on Harvard undergraduates. Housemasters, long defenders of good taste in dress, obviously do not realize what is going on in their own dining rooms. They should act quickly to prevent biddie clothing taste from becoming still more domineering--lest John Finley return from Oxford next fall to find floral patterns appearing by mandate on Eliot ties...
...Donald K. David retired after 13 years and drew high praise from contemporaries for his active work in the School. Francis M. Rogers, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, also retired to teaching and Mason Hammond, Master of Kirkland House, will become the second Housemaster (John Finley of Eliot was the first) in as many years to announce plans for study abroad...
Happily for future donors, almost a third of the gallery remains to be filled. Director David Finley is in no hurry to fill it. "We would like to be not one of the largest galleries," he explains, "but one of the best." The truth is that European masterpieces in private hands grow fewer every year, while laws prohibiting their export from most European countries make them ever harder to obtain...
Last summer, Eliot House's Master-on-leave John Finley, who had long sought a pre-medical tutor in his House, went out and found one. He invited a young research doctor at a Boston hospital to move into Eliot as a resident tutor. The plan has been so successful that it is now time for the other Houses to follow this lead...
...less surprising to me and my friends at Amherst that I'm doing this," Brower says. He feels the man here who best understood his motives was Eliot's John Finley, who wrote, "You now prove not to have lost Amherst for Harvard, but to have regained it, so to speak, within Harvard...