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...part of the novel, Eliot House Master John Finley '25 explains to underclassman Danny Rossi, a musical genius, why he had been assigned to Eliot, which Rossi considers full of "smug preppies." Finley says, "I wanted you very badly, Daniel. I had to trade the master of Adams two football stalwarts and a published poet just to get him to relinquish...
...Finley recalls six groups which he tried to balance. "There were the very good students, the very high athletes, the fellows from the proper schools, the artistic ones, the hot and bothered ones [who] would go on to write for The Crimson, and the sixth were the presidents of classes of high schools somewhere in Indiana. These were the best...
When the groups who had selected a house did not offer the necessary diversity, masters would try to entice other students to come to their house. "Rooms differed, as did the costs, so you tried to compromise these considerations," says Finley...
...master's interviews were just one aspect of a master-student relationship and house atmosphere that were much closer in those days, Finley says. "It wasn't the size, it was what one expected of a house," he says...
...however, says that "Finley was famous as the master who paid the most attention to his house...The real person who set the tone of [Dunster] House was the senior tutor...