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...Eliot House is using its Ford money primarily to finance a series of small Senior luncheons with outstanding guests," Master John H. Finley, Jr. '25 said yesterday. "We have avoided the idea of putting on forums," he added. "There are relatively too many forums in the College...
...Lebanon and Iraq were defensive issues such as tobaccos and foods, which have been recession favorites. As investors switched to "hardware" stocks, Lorillard dropped 3½ to 67¼; General Foods slid 1¼ to 62¾. "A whole new set of uncertainties now faces us," said John W. Finley, vice president of Blair & Co. "A stock like Lorillard would really be hurt by an excess profits tax, because such a tax penalizes a company with sharply rising earnings...
...Class of 1933 pushed out to "The Frontiers of Knowledge" yesterday in a colloquium called "The Humanities in the Age of Science." Three of the University's foremost humanists, Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, exposed the dangers lurking in the recent onrush of the sciences...
...Finley's Remarks...
...Master Finley spent most of his talk discussing the plot and implications of the Odyssey and regaled the members of the various reunion classes with his witty analogies between past and present. Finley called the humanities "an escape from perpetual particularity" and "the clarifier of the world...