Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read with interest your profile on Professor John Finley, and as one whom Mr. Reed (Eliot House, '69) consulted, I would like to correct a quotation which I myself gave him. As it appears in your Profile, Mr. Finley described a thesis as "the length and shadow of a temperament." What he in fact said was "the lengthened shadow of a temperament," a line which typifies hand-homely his well-known understanding of student efforts, besides being an extraordinarily elegant example of iambic pentameter...
There are numberless other inaccuracies in Mr. Reed's Profile, a few of which are the reference to Mr. Finley's white hair (which retains its usual youthful color), the diminished attendance in Humanities 2 (simply false), and the ungrammatical Latin attributed with great unlikelihood to a former student of Norden and Wilamowitz (I pass over the vulgar reply). These allegations need no refutation, but they do seem inappropriate in the year when Eliot House, as now a nationwide community, is celebrating Professor Finley's 25th anniversary as Master...
...YEARS John Reed '10, who fought in the Russian revolution, who is buried in the Kremlin, and whose portrait hangs in an airless corner of Adams House, has been Harvard's most public Communist...
Sachar explained that since becoming a university 13 years ago, Brandeis has had to balance graduate and undergraduate teaching. Although he admitted graduate programs tie down professors who otherwise might teach undergraduates, Sachar defended Brandeis' university status. He pointed out that colleges like Reed, without extensive research facilities, are having trouble holding on to top notch instructors...
...REED C. ANDREW...