"He had trouble getting up in the morning," Rose says. "It was an ordeal to wake Harvey up. It's the only time of day when Harvey's not pleasant."

Finally, Rose issued an ultimatum.

"I didn't want to go through the ordeal and have him greet me with this incredibly pained and unhappy impression," Rose says. "I told him I wouldn't anymore unless he woke up with a smile. So he did. He would give me a big smile. Totally faked."

"David was better in the morning than I was," Fineberg says.

Rose also remembers Fineberg's meticulous practice habits.

"He practiced probably an hour a day for every day of his undergraduate life," Rose says.

Fineberg practiced on the Chicoring grand piano in the tower room of Lowell House, which was also where he played trumpet with Rose. The two often played fanfares for the tradition of Lowell House High Table. And he joined student radio station WHRB, where he worked the midnight shift. ("The only time I was awake," he jokes.)

Fineberg was also a part of Schneider's Band, which he describes as the "idiot fringe of the Harvard band." Schneider's Band was a group of Harvard musicians who would don humorous get-ups and serenade women's colleges with their somewhat off-color act. The aim, Rose says, was to meet eligible young women.