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Former master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus John H. Finley '25, wrote to Kirkland House Master Donald H. Pfister this week suggesting that the historic wood be used to make a bench for Kirkland House...
...great President Kirkland splendidly enclosed the north end of the Old Yard by completing University Hall," Finley said yesterday, "The area behind that was all full of woodpiles, outhouses, and someone even said pigsties, although I'm not sure about that. Kirkland planted a row of pine trees there, and [this tree] was the last one of these...
...Finley said that Kirkland, who served as president from 1810-28, commissioned architect Charles Bulfinch to build University Hall in the Federalist, neoclassical style. According to "Three Centuries of Harvard," a college history book by Samuel Eliot Morison, Kirkland called the Yard an "unkempt sheep commons," and completed other improvement projects including the construction of Holworthy Hall...
...ideal of all that a Commencement speaker should be," in Riesman's words, was realized in 1982 when Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus John H. Finley '25 spoke...
Harvard broke with tradition that year to honor one of its own. The result was a witty, anecdotal account by Finley of his long career at Harvard, where among other accomplishments he served from 1941 to 1968 as Master of Eliot House...