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...spotlight on Harvard's unique platform is never brighter than on Commencement Day While the University will break with tradition this afternoon to honor one of its own classics scholar John H. Finley `25 the speakers who grace the Commencement podium often arrive with worldwide fame and they occasionally leave having changed history...
...prospects from graduate schools, made them associates, and if they did well after a few years offered them a chance to buy into the business as partners. The really successful professors would eventually get their names on the letterhead, and secretaries around Cambridge would answer the phone, "Good morning, Finley, Galbraith, Riesman and Handlin...
...John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House from 1942 to 1968, saw his responsibilities as upholding and demonstrating two ideals to which all Harvard men were expected to aspire: pursuit of higher learning and devotion to the College. He found his own academic work essential to maintaining this role...
...helped ease [the students] into the next stage of their life. However much work and time I committed to encouraging and acquainting myself with the students in the House. I think I should've perished had I not kept up with my own work as well," says Finley, also Eliot Professor of Greek Literature emeritus, who remembers annually memorizing the face and name of every Eliot House incoming sophomore...
...Victoria Finley...