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Unlike their predecessors, the Concord Minutemen of 1775, the embattled businessmen standing by the rude Weeks Bridge will not fire a warning shot. They will run to Ellot House and blow a whistle to awake Mrs. Finley, who will alert volunteers by telephone. Mrs. Finley thinks it would be a shame "if the trees were chopped down while we lay in our beds anug and warm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Minutemen' Set to Guard Sycamores | 11/7/1964 | See Source »

Although some reports have pictured John H. Finley, Jr., '25, Master of Eliot House, as the chief opponent of the interhouse scheme, Finley said last night that interhouse was not a subject in which he was particulary interested...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Masters Table Request For 'Cliffe Interhouse | 11/5/1964 | See Source »

...University first learns of proposal to build underpasses at Boylston St., River St., and Western Ave. John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, reacts with "pure, horrid gloom" when told that one of the access roads to the Boylston St. underpass might come very close to the corner of his House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERPASSES: A CHRONOLOGY | 10/3/1964 | See Source »

...pillars of Exam Group XII is English 70, a popular tour of American literature conducted this term by Alan Heimert. Elsewhere in the English Department Walter Jackson Bate illuminates the "Function and Criticism of Literature" in English 192, and scads of undergrads submit to the spell of John Finley's epic oratory in Hum 2. Universalists must choose between Merle Fainsod's treatment of Soviet Dictatorship in Government' 115 and the "Principles of Ecology" studied in Biology 143; the undecided settle on Iranian 175, "the Culture of Ancient Iran." Scientists delve into Geology 271a, "Mining Geology," or aspire to astronomical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coursegoer: T. Th. (S.) | 9/29/1964 | See Source »

...Your story on Bauer and Baltimore [Sept. 11] was especially well written and highly interesting. However, instead of saying "Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game," you should have given him credit for playing the best-the "Big-League Manager Baseball Game" of Duluth, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 18, 1964 | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

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