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CHICAGO, Sept. 10--Faculty members shunned the Republican Convention this summer, but numbered strong at the Democratic session.
Only one professor could rightly be termed a non-partisan observer at both. He was Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government. But he too seemed to have more allegiance with the Democrats. At their convention, he was a Sergeant of arms on the floor.
Several threw their luck in with the Harriman forces. William E. Leuchtonberg, formerly an assistant professor of History, served as a delegate analysist for Harriman, while Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, did sundry chores, and helped with the conservation plank in the Democratic platform.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, sat through the Democratic squabbles in a box until the end of the convention, then packed his bags for Springfield, Illinois.
The single aid to Massachusetts' Governor and Convention keynoter, Paul A. Dever, was Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics. He reportedly helped Dever with his lengthy keynote address.
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