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...John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus, rising from the audience and addressing them after a former student quoted him during a symposium...
Academically we were journeyman students. Byand large we did the work, pulsing under theguiding hands of the faculty. Will any of us everforget John Finley '28 in his waltz across thestage as he described Agamemnon, (he laterdescribed an Eliot House senior as a cross betweenAchilles and Harry Truman), pivoting as he reachedstage end and swirling the cord of his microphonein a deft...
...bench will be in honor of former College President John T. Kirkland, who was president from 1810-28. He had pine trees planted in the Yard in 1815 in order to close up the open space there, Finley said...
...Kirkland planted a row of pine trees there, and [this tree] was the last one of these," Finley said...
After the tree fell on September 27, John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus and former master of Eliot House, started a movement to make a memorial of the tree by suggesting the idea to Pfister...