Word: finleyism
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...John J. Finley '68 of Lowell House and Falls Church, Va., manager; David A. Grimes '69 of Quincy House and Greensboro, N.C., student conductor; Gordon H. Sellon Jr., '68 of Dudley House and Belmont, drill master; Wayne S. Barry '69 of Eliot House and Wilmette, III. Also approved assistant managers, Joseph Field '69 of Leverett House and Weston; William C. Horne '69 of Leverett House and Beverly; S. Kent Rawson '69 of Leverett House and Topeka, Kansas; Michael S. Schooler '69 of Lowell House and Rochester, N.Y.; and Robert D. Whittemore '69 of Leverett House and New York...
...John H. Finley, master of Eliot House, said last night that he objected to a rally within House grounds because it would subject students to pressure. "One of the jobs of the House officials," Finley continued, "is to make sure that a House (with a big H) is more like a house (with a small...
...Finley's haiku deal with such close-to-childhood subjects as kites, tadpoles, animals and birthdays. They also deal with modern communications...
...classes, Mrs. Finley starts by having her students read a haiku together, clapping in unison with the syllables, and then individually describe the images the poem conveys. To set them off on their own haiku, she gives them the first two lines, asks them to supply a third. The responses often reflect the down-to-earth quality of children's imaginations. Once, for example, she gave her daughter the lines
...Finley arms her students with a dictionary and a Roget's Thesaurus, finds that both become thoroughly thumbed as the children seek synonyms to fit the rigid line scheme, stretching their vocabularies. To keep them searching, she bans such overworked words as fine, nice, pretty and good. Mrs. Finley is not alone in trying to teach writing in 17 hard syllables: the National Council of Teachers of English reports that haiku are turning up in classrooms throughout the country. Creating a haiku, teachers have found, expands a child's imagery, provides a quick sense of accomplishment because...