Harvard Professors Join Council To Document McCarthy Campaign

Seven Harvard professors, including David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, have joined an academic council to advice the "McCarthy Historical Project" on how to build an archival history of Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign.

'Most Extensive'

David Mixner, a McCarthy campaign organizer and staff director of the archives project, said the project would be the most extensive documentation of a presidential campaign yet undertaken. Six staff members are working full-time in Washington, D.C., compiling records of all aspects of the campaign as well as constructing a profile of McCarthy.

Martin H. Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, who helped to organize the academic council, said yesterday that the 25 participating professors will advise the archivists on how the McCarthy records should be compiled. They will also determine what the most important material is and where the records should ultimately be stored.

Peretz said the council and staff members of the project are trying to "gain a sense of what the campaign was all about." Among the material collected so far, Peretz described the following:

* Diaries, in which followers' changing attitudes toward McCarthy can be traced;

* Internal memoranda. which record disputes within the McCarthy camp;

* Drafts of McCarthy's speeches and records of the changes he made in them.