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...Master Finley of Eliot House roamed among the protestors urging members of his House to leave the demonstration because, he said, there was a real danger of their all being fired. "I don't like to see friends of mine lead with their chins," Finley said...
Monro, Master John Finley, and at least one other University official met with Colonel Pell and advised him that he was acting wrongly; he ignored the advice and held fast to his own judgment...
...three cases my judgment differed from Pell's, and both John F. Finley and I tried to change his judgment; in the end, however, there was nothing more we could do, and Pell's decision was final," Monro said...
...year 1967, they are: Harry S Truman, ex-President; Leonard Bernstein '39, author of the Quincy House play; John U. Monro '34, retiring Dean of Harvard College; Buck minister Fuller '17, geodesic-dome builder; Bernard Malamud, Pulitzer-Prize-winning lecturer in General Education; Barbara Tuchman, historian; John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...
According to the text of the fellowship, the recipient should "best exemplify the quality of humanity which John Finley has taught during his career as a scholar, teacher, and Master and which he himself so nobly exemplifies...