Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard gave honorary degrees also to John H. Finley '25, retiring as Master of Eliot House; and two Law School alumni, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the United States Supreme Court...
...John H. Finley has been Master of Eliot House for 26 years. His interest in his men of Eliot is legendary, as is his metaphorical approach to thinking and speaking. Finley was one of the principal authors of the landmark report "General Education in a Free Society...
Several courses will not be given next year. Social Sciences 3 and 8 will be dropped and Humanities 3 will not be offered because John H. Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, will be on a leave of absence...
...starter with a flowing Edwardian tie; a grand marshall with a cane greeted them at the finish line. In between, they raced Porsches on Soldiers Field Road, startled little girls in Newton Corner, and fought their way along infamous Route 16. "The Odyssey of our time," John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, is said to have remarked...
...Finley and other Masters who favor such plans as paying tutors for specified jobs instead of giving them free room and board advance their plans tentatively. They are sensitive to the conflict between formal arrangements which will extract the House's pound of flesh from its senior and junior associates and the goal of such schemes--energizing informal relationships. The most fascinating question before Ford's new committee will be whether structural changes are adequate to cure the ills of the Houses...