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...machine owned by the Cigarette Service Co. of Cambridge, was replaced without the knowledge or approval of the Eliot House Committee or staff, Master Finley, the University Purchasing Office, or the administration. Wiggins said that the company had not been informed of his March 25th directive...
...Master Finley said that he had no knowledge of the machine's replacement and that "obviously the Master should have been informed." He said, however, that the matter was primarily the Administration's responsibility, and he "wouldn't horn...
...Died. Finley Robertson Porter, 92, automotive pioneer, chief designer of the low-slung Mercer Raceabout, a forerunner of modern sportscars produced just before World War I, which cost $2,500 and is today's most valuable vintage U.S. auto (the 25 known surviving models are each worth at least $18,000); of heart disease; in Southampton...
...will be divided into several two or three week segments during which different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...
...Finley noted yesterday that Hum 1 "had everything but the kitchen stove in it. It's impossible to get people to take up the White Man's Burden" and teach lower-level Humanities courses alone, Finley explained, and therefore, the Committee had devised this "vaudeville performance." Nonetheless, he said he has great hopes for the new course...