Word: finley
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Undergraduates should have "first claim" on any deconverted rooms, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, commented. Both Finley and Owen emphasized that space might be made for "exceptional" graduate students, given the present problem of crowding, but no larger number could join the Houses...
...avoid the problem of cost, said John E. Finley, Master of Eliot House, Eliot will use adjoining suites to create larger units. A deconverted double, he explained, would join an unconverted triple, thus allowing five students to use four bedrooms and two living rooms...
...Edgar Finley Shannon Jr., 41, as fourth* president of the 140-year-old University of Virginia (enrollment: 4,468). He succeeds retiring Colgate W. Darden Jr., who nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half-miler at Washington and Lee (1949). A Navy gunnery officer in World War II, he survived the sinking of the cruiser Quincy, won eleven Pacific Theater battle stars and the Bronze Star. He specialized in Tennyson at Harvard, earned his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Merton College...
Most University officials, as well as the Masters, concede that the Houses are crowded beyond the desirable point, several officials said. But the problem arises--is total deconversion to the "normal" capacity of each suite a desideratum? John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, contended yesterday that it is. "It may be assumed as a simple rule," he said, "that everyone needs a room by himself...
...Finley stated that he would oppose any effort to assess student opinion on the crowding-rent problem. He stated that undergraduates "lack the experience to know anything about money." Other Masters and Deans, however, questioned the advisability of complete deconversion without first determining how far students will tolerate crowding as long as it keeps down room rents...