Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ADDITION, the committee will have to decide how Houses should be staffed to keep up with the mountains of paper work they now face. John Finley has called himself a shoehorn, and while no other Master enters the business of writing recommendations with his verve, it is agreed that moving students smoothly into whatever they will do the year after they graduate is a part of the Houses...
...small group of Senior Faculty--maybe 50--end up writing a huge proportion of the grad school and fellowship recommendations, and some of Harvard's most popular professors complain privately of the amount of their time this process consumes. Finley worries that the prospect of writing so many letters scares some Faculty members away from accepting Masterships. Neglecting this unpleasant chore would be tempting, Gill says, except that the letters "happen to be terribly important. In an impersonal world, you can do a lot," Finley says, and Harvard has a record to prove...
...several years, Finley has been pushing a scheme which would systematize the whole business. He wants each residential tutor to take responsibility for six or seven students in the House, much in the way Freshmen are assigned to advisors. Senior Faculty would act "as the Master Sergeants in this scheme," Finley says. He insists that Harvard has a responsibility "to deal honorably with everybody and send them off strongly," and that there is little prospect for the University's doing so unless the function is made official...
Liller will not another John Finley. "Above all Adams House must be a nice place to live," he says when asked if he would strive to have more Rhodes scholars or excellent athletes than the other Houses. "I feel that the Houses tend to become too institutionalized resulting in the large requests for off-campus living." He sees few reasons why someone living in a House cannot have the freedom of one who lives off-campus...
...dinner in Eliot House last night, Finley informed his boys of the appointment, and cried "Floreat domus de Eliot" (Let Eliot House bloom). Heimert answered, "Following Master Finley will be like getting into the wake of the Queen Elizabeth in a rowboat." They then sat down with a bottle of Italian champagne...