Word: finleyism
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...split in purposes in American higher education stems, Finley proposed, from the dual European inheritance. English colleges provided the background of the university as a training ground for the future leader, while the Continental institutions added the idea that colleges should primarily be concerned with the professional expert...
...blend of the two traditions in America has resulted "in the greatest hybrid ever seen," Finley told his NSA audience...
...John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, opened a NSA conference on academic freedom last night by neatly dividing college students into two categories: those for whom the curriculum is "functional" and those for whom...
...different needs of both groups cause most of the conflicts at a university like Harvard, Finley suggested. Nonetheless, he firmly maintained that "each group has something to learn from the other," and that the university must not become over-oriented towards either...
...given again in 1962-3 by Leonard K. Nash '39, professor of Chemistry. Although the core of Nat Sci 4 is chemistry rather than history, an effort is made to trace the historical development of chemical theories and methods. "The historical approach has not been given up," Finley asserted, "but it is no longer central...