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...Finley is remembered for memorizing the names of all house residents and advising them on how to conduct themselves...
According to his obituary in the New York Times, Finley would often tell House residents that the purpose of college was to reduce the time they spent thinking about women from 80 percent to 60 percent...
...Finley was also remembered for saying his soul was shaped like a shoehorn because of the time he spent getting his students into jobs...
...Finley, who taught at Harvard for 43 years, joined the faculty in 1933. his most popular course, humanities 103, titled "The Great Age of Athens," focused on the works of Homer, Plato and Aristotle...
...last lecture in 1976, Finley received two standing ovations...