Word: finleyism
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Eliot House has its own legend and lore. Its name evokes images of Master John Finley wandering from table to table in the dining room mentioning those all-too-familiar figures of antiquity. Its name produces visions of nattily-dressed preppies scampering from a Master's tea to the Club, and of House jocks and future Rhodes scholars energetically supporting a virtual madhouse of intramural activities...
...Eliot men guard their individuality, Master Finley treasures the myth. He cheers on House football, and joins in with tennis players. He seeks frequent opportunities to light up the House tower in honor of special events. And his famous recommendations have brought House members more than their share of Rhodes and other awards...
...John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, said that a background in the Harvard Houses might be a better qualification for a Master than a position on the Harvard Faculty...
...chairman of the Committee on General Education, John Finley had to contend with what he called "a generation that knew not Joseph." Most of the young Faculty members had arrived after the initial burst of enthusiasm that carried the Gen Ed program through the early 1950's; they were not excited about becoming part of it. Finley had to carry on the program, pleading with the old champions of Gen Ed to give their courses a bit longer, and searching the Faculty for other men who might help...
...burst of enthusiasm revives the Gen Ed program, much of the credit will rightly be given to the reforms voted by the Faculty and to the new Gen Ed Committee. But undergraduates should be grateful to John Finley, who took it upon himself in the bleakest of years to remind his colleagues that Harvard owes its students more than a specialist's education...