Word: finleyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight hundred students, alumni, and Faculty will gather on the floor of the Palmer Dixon tennis courts this evening to honor John Huston Finley...
...Finley, who is 63, has been Master of Eliot House for the past 25 years. No one has been a Master longer...
Mike Aron, Dan Orlovsky, and Dean Rau sparked Eliot with hot shooting as Master Finley's boys repeatedly used the fast break to smash Kirkland's zone press. Eliot's free lance offense outran and out-shot Kirkland's patterned attack which suffered from the loss of two of its offensive stars...
Many friends and admirers, and acquaintances even, of John Finley must have shared my own feeling of dissatisfaction with the profile of him which appeared two weeks ago in the CRIMSON. I am not concerned about minor inaccuracies, which are inevitable in any attempt at reporting (and which have been well documented already); nor can I complain of lack of praise in a piece which was clearly meant to be eulogistic in tone and at the same time fair: nor, finally, do I want to take issue with the observations of a more critical sort. No doubt many of them...
...dissatisfaction, I think, was with the startling incompleteness of the picture. Who would have guessed from the profile, for example, that John Finley had written a standard major study of Thucydides before he became Master of Eliot House? Or that during the years in which he has poured his time, his energy and his very life into the Mastership he has produced two further important works on Greek literature? Or that to him was recently dedicated Sir Maurice Bowra's monumental work on Pindar...