Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John H. Finley '25, chairman of the Committee on General Education, said yesterday that Kari Strauch, profesor of Physics, will probably serve as Fall Term lecturer in Nat. Sci. 2 next year...
...young man, he was a stupor mundi," Finley said. "He lived very thoroughly the life of a professional scholar. He was not very active in the House, but he loved it. He got to know some of the undergraduates and sometimes he would come up behind one, tap him on the shoulder and quote some unintelligible Latin, or English which sounded like Latin...
During the last years of his life, Finley said, Nock "became immersed in an infinite particularity of memory. His knowledge was not like a rope, but like a beach of sand...
...Finley described Nock's system of taking notes. He would tear pieces of paper off undergraduate blue books...
scribble notes on them, and put them in a bag behind his desk. Later he would take them out and put them between the pages of books which lay in piles around the room. "Once I remember he told me he had misplaced a book," Finley said. "Sometimes I wondered how he managed to find anything...