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Several courses will not be given next year. Social Sciences 3 and 8 will be dropped and Humanities 3 will not be offered because John H. Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, will be on a leave of absence...
...starter with a flowing Edwardian tie; a grand marshall with a cane greeted them at the finish line. In between, they raced Porsches on Soldiers Field Road, startled little girls in Newton Corner, and fought their way along infamous Route 16. "The Odyssey of our time," John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, is said to have remarked...
...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...
...Finley and other Masters who favor such plans as paying tutors for specified jobs instead of giving them free room and board advance their plans tentatively. They are sensitive to the conflict between formal arrangements which will extract the House's pound of flesh from its senior and junior associates and the goal of such schemes--energizing informal relationships. The most fascinating question before Ford's new committee will be whether structural changes are adequate to cure the ills of the Houses...