"He wanted to try to meet her in some way, but like all of us he was not capable of talking to her," Rose says.
Fineberg tailed her to her next class--a course in modern Japanese literature, something in which he had no background. But the course sounded interesting.
Fineberg ended up staying, but he never ended up getting to know the girl. He doesn't even know if she enrolled.
The Quiet One
According to Rose, Fineberg was what today's Harvard would term Group I. But he wasn't a Lamont-dweller. And he wasn't an attention-grabber.
"He didn't need everybody else to know he was getting A's," Rose says. "It didn't come at the cost of everything else."
"He didn't run for office and he didn't do anything to draw attention to himself," Rose adds.
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