Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Experience of Literature," which will replace both Hum 3 and Hum 7, will be "like a walk through a statue gallery, and the statuary will be both the authors and the professors," John H. Finley, Jr. '24, chairman of the Committee on General Education, said yesterday...
...will be divided into several two or three week segments during which different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...
...Finley noted yesterday that Hum 1 "had everything but the kitchen stove in it. It's impossible to get people to take up the White Man's Burden" and teach lower-level Humanities courses alone, Finley explained, and therefore, the Committee had devised this "vaudeville performance." Nonetheless, he said he has great hopes for the new course...
...Finley said that many upper-floor suites have been consolidated to provide more single bedrooms. Suites with single bedrooms, he said, have smaller rooms, are on upper floors, and lack windows overlooking the Charles. "We may be badly deceived," Finley added, "but we hope we can even things out enough to solve the problem equitably...
...Both Finley and Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, are anxious to avoid lotteries. "We hope not to have too many conflicts," Stewart said yesterday. "We'll turn to giving suites to students who have high marks or have performed some service to the House only as a last resort...