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...John H. Finley...
...CHARLIE FINLEY -- M.C. HAMMER PROJECT (Imagine) The true-life story of the colorful owner of the Oakland A's, who hired the future rapmaster as the team's "executive assistant...
...Harvard decided to break tradition by inviting one of its own to speak at Commencement. Eliot Professor of Greek emeritus John H. Finley Jr. '25, described as the last immortal professor at Harvard, agreed to speak at the graduation exercises...
...Finley, who was master of Eliot House from 1942 to 1968, was an undergraduate and doctoral student at Harvard. His association with the University extended over 50 years, and according to outgoing Eliot Master Alan E. Heimert '48, Finley was "an embodiment of the Golden Age of Harvard...
Talking of life in the Harvard houses, Finley said, "the more fetching sex, among its many superior gifts, heeds life's enticing summons. In this pre-medical era, a girl of course takes chemistry and biology but, life being beautiful, does some fine arts and acquires a picture or two. She reads, and her bookcase shows some Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. In deference to modernity, she even does some sociology. Then when a member of my obsessive sex who simple-heartedly looks to business school via economics seeks to make headway with her, she starts educating him--needless...