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...will be the first Harvard affiliate to deliver the Commencement address since 1982, when Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus John H. Finley Jr. '25 was the honored speaker...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: Bok to be Commencement Speaker | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...Student expectations for House masters are greater than they can deliver," Bossert said. He added that house masters are "not as important in the University as they once were," in what he called the "age of golden house masters," such as John H. Finley '25 and Eliot Perkins. In those days, said Bossert, "you were a house master first and a professor second. That doesn't work anymore...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Does the House System Need a Facelift? | 2/22/1991 | See Source »

...Sepulveda. He was given a room by a white family so he would be close to his new school and able to take the grocery job nearby. Unlike most of his friends, he managed to graduate from high school in 1982. His diploma pleased his widowed mother Minnie Finley, who cleaned motel rooms and had high hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fling of a High Roller | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...when the Haas family of San Francisco bought the franchise from Charles O. Finley, the A's were ailing. Finley had goaded the team to three consecutive world championships in 1972-74, but by 1979 the A's were attracting fewer than 4,000 visitors a game. In one pathetic match-up on April 17 of that year, only 653 souls attended. The following year Finley unloaded the team for $12.75 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Streaking Hard for the Top | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...months-long relative silence to tell a private meeting of arts leaders in Seattle in late June, "It is our job to recognize the political realities," and indicated that some grants will be denied on grounds other than artistic merit. Within days, four examples emerged: performance artists Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes and Tom Miller. All had been funded before and were recommended again by peers. But all emphasize sexual issues, including feminism and empathy for gays, which are flash points for the right. Finley, for example, appears nude to decry abuse of women, and has been assailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: You Can Take This Grant and . . . | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

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