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...Finley's rambling hour-long speech, part of the Writing Center lecture series, focused on the reasons a writer sits down to write something...
...intelligence is "simplification," and writing is just another way of simplifying the world, John H. Finley '25, former Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus, told a standing-room-only crowd in Harvard Hall yesterday...
Died. David E. Finley, 86, the soft-spoken South Carolina lawyer who was the planner and first director (1938-1956) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; at his home in Georgetown. The idea, the money-and the first great collection for the gallery-came from Steel Magnate Andrew W. Mellon, who as Secretary of the Treasury in 1927 and later as Ambassador to Great Britain had taken on Finley as his most trusted associate. The enormous marble museum opened in 1941, and Finley persuaded other great collectors, notably Samuel Kress, Lessing Rosenwald and Peter and Joseph Widener...
Many returns for Homeric Finley and Nagy...
...BEST WAY of encouraging students to take courses is to make the best teaching faculty members design and teach them. There is an historical example of how well this type of course can work: John Finley's Hum 103. "The Great Age of Athens." It was not the Hum requirement that made so many students enroll in this course. It was Finley's ability to interest students in the material. If the Faculty feels biology and physics courses are important, then it should present some attractive introductory courses in these fields--ones that would remain free from pre-med competition...