Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sitting there eating with a great expanse of hairy legs is a rather repulsive thing," John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, declared. "Since you can't ask the head waitress to differentiate between shorts from J. Press and shorts from the YMCA," he explained, "J. Press is out, also...
...Andreas Teuber, have refused to attempt to bore. Mr. Lyons' rebellion, happily enough, has extended to a complete repudiation of his part. He is the Duke; not Shakespeare's Duke, to be sure, but a dazzlingly royal admixture of Hapsburg and Abdul Hammid, of Bette Davis and John Finley, with perhaps a hint of Angela Lansbury and Major Strasser. When he is on the stage, he does not dominate so much as devastate the pretensions of everyone else. He is, in fact, infinitely more attractive than Shakespeare's Duke ever can be; it is as though Laughton were playing Peter...
Among the speakers is John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley will deliver a speech entitled "The Inward Voice of the Classics" this morning. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, will also speak today...
Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, and John J. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, stated yesterday that they are definitely in favor of offering courses for credit within their Houses. Five other Masters, however, expressed doubts about the feasibility of such a program...
...Finley said that he felt the offering of credit courses could be a successful and worthwhile addition to the Houses. Such courses were successfully given in Eliot House during the thirties, but were discontinued shortly before the Second World War because the faculty was understaffed. The courses could be reinstated with good results, Finley pointed out, if enough faculty members were available to lead them...