HICKS, HARVARD COMMUNIST, ARRIVES, SETTLES QUIETLY

Looking very much like a scholar and gentleman, Granville Hicks '23, the first Communist to secure a Harvard appointment, has arrived in Cambridge and is already settled in fashionable Waban. He has a wife and daughter, speaks quietly, and is impatient with the publicity created by is appointment last spring as one of the seven American History counsellors.

Announcement of Hicks's appointment in April caused a furore in Boston papers and in the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard was denounced for hiring a "Red" and encouraging "subversive influences." According to Hicks, he has belonged to the Communist party for over two years. He considers Earl Browder, its leader, "a great deal more intelligent and competent than any other political leader that I can think of."

Hicks will have a study in Adams House near the conservative quarters of Robert Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and be available to students interested in American civilization.