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Most University officials, as well as the Masters, concede that the Houses are crowded beyond the desirable point, several officials said. But the problem arises--is total deconversion to the "normal" capacity of each suite a desideratum? John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, contended yesterday that it is. "It may be assumed as a simple rule," he said, "that everyone needs a room by himself...
...paunch, loved to answer his own questions to doctoral candidates as a kind of final blessing. Scholar Jaeger will stay in Cambridge, continue his great critical edition (ten volumes) of the works of Gregory of Nyssa,* the first such attempt since the French Revolution. Said Harvard Greek Professor John Finley in a farewell oration to Jaeger not long ago (following the remarks of Pupil Theophrastus to Master Aristotle): "Happy they with whom he lives, like Hesiod's people for whom the oak at its summit bears acorns, and in its middle branches honey...
Other speakers were John H. Finley Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, who traced the College's House system and its value to the curriculum, and Dean Bender, who outlined admissions policy...
...Finley Stands Firm...
...John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, also opposed any exemption from lower level requirements in Humanities and Social Sciences. Although this is a "serious problem," he admitted, "I, of course, stand by the present rules...