Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking up for General Education, I'm beginning to feel like Harry Truman defending the New Deal," John H. Finley, Jr., Master of Eliot House, said yesterday...
Explaining his belief in a compulsory Gen Ed program, Finley drew parallels between the evolution of the education and government: "Hutchins at Chicago broke down the departments to build a college, just like Mussolini broke up the corporations to consolidate Italy...
...results in both cases were disastrous, Finley said, "and Harvard like Roosevelt, learned from the disasters. Under Conant we mixed unity and diversity and came up with a real New Deal of a Gen Ed program. Now all these fellow on the Faculty are trying to breaking...
...Unlike their predecessors, the Concord Minutemen of 1775, the embattled businessmen standing by the rude Weeks Bridge will not fire a warning shot. They will run to Eliot House and blow a whistle to awake Mrs. Finely, who will alert the volunteers by telephone. Mrs. Finley thinks it would be a shame 'if the trees were chopped down while we lay in our beds snug and warm" CRIMSON...
Sung Mrs. Finley jumped out of bed out of window she popped her head Crying, "John, John, the trees are gone And the MDC's on the town-o town-o, town...