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...John Finley, master of Eliot House and in Hum2, unravels the of Milton to one of His students...
Masters generally scoffed yesterday at fears that abolishing the 'Cliffe's curfew would keep Harvard men out too late too often or cause more violations of parietals. But John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, called the RGA proposal to allow sign-outs to morning hours "absurd quite absurd...
Speaking "not as a Master but as a father," Finley stated that "surely one o'clock is amply late. It's ridiculous for young people, especially girls, not to go home...
Asked if he thought the new rules would increase violations, Master Finley said, "I don't see how you're going to check on visitors, since the night-man goes off at 12:30." Delmar Leighton, Master of Dudley House, laughed and answered...
...cram schools for graduate study, and at some prestige campuses, 90% of all B.A.s do go on studying (national rate: 33%). The generalists are also unhappy about speedup advanced-standing schemes in which students skip entire years. (They approve the extra-credit Advanced Placement Program.) At Harvard, Classicist John Finley argues that even ultrabrights need time to grow up. "A student can fly from the West Coast to Harvard in a few hours," says Finley, "but the soul is like a little dog that has to run all the way across the continent, and gets to Cambridge about a year...