MacLeish Accepts Position in Mass. Stevenson Group

Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, has accepted the honorary chairmanship of the Massachusetts Volunteers for Stevenson. Three other faculty members and one professor's wife are also on the Volunteer's general committee.

They are: Raphael Demos, Professor of Philosophy; Mark A. Howe, professor of Law; John H. Finley, Jr, '25, Master of Eliot House; and the wife of Merle K. Fainsod, professor of Government.

The Committee has established headquarters in the Touraine Hotel in Boston, A branch of the National Volunteers for Stevenson in Chicago, the committee's purpose is to pull the independent and nominally Republican vote into the Governor's column in the November elections Both the Harvard Democratic Club and the Harvard Liberal Union will work for Stevenson under the Volunteers.

Finley Praises Stevenson

MacLeish could not be reached for comment on his new position last night, but Dr. Finley, who has regularly voted the Republican ticket in state elections, said he will bolt the Republican ticket for Stevenson because of his "candor, power, and courage."

"Like many others," Finley said, "I was impressed by his acceptance speech. He has shown extraordinary courage in his speech to the American Legion, his advocacy of civil rights in the South, and in his stand on the Tidelands issue. In all his speeches he has shown the power of conviction and of leadership through explanation, something which his opponent has sadly lacked."