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Many faculty members, past and present, are mentioned for their "collectivist" views. These include former Communists like Richard Gorham Davis, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Granville Hicks '23, Helen Deane Markham, Leon J. Kamin '49--no longer associated with the University--and Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, are classified as "fellow travelers" by Root...
...arrived was another figure who gained prominence because of his communist affiliation: Robert Gorham Davis '29, at present a professor at Smith College, then an instructor at the University. He joined the party in January 1937 and attended the same cell meetings as Hicks, Wendell H. Furry, Daniel J. Boorstin '34, now University Professor at the University of Chicago, and several other lesser-known graduate students and junior-grade faculty members...
...former Harvard instructor, Daniel J. Boorstin, also testified before the Veldo Committee yesterday. Boorstin reiterated testimony by Professor Robert G. Davis of Smith as to the existence of a Communist cell at Harvard in the thirties. He, as did Davis, testified that Furry had been a member of that group...
Schedules to testify tomorrow before the committee, chaired by Harold H. Velde (R-III.) are ex-Communist Granville Hicks '23, a teaching fellow in American History here in 1938-39, and Daniel J. Boorstin '34, associate professor of American History at the University of Chicago and one of the men on Davis' list...
Aside from Furry and Boorstin, Davis named eight other former teachers as cell members. They are Jack B. Rackliffe '34, John H. Reynolds '29, Richard B. Schlatter, former instructor in History, Richard M. Goodwin '34, instructor in Physics and later assistant professor of Economics, George Mayberry, Israel Halperin, Ruby Sherr, and Herbert E. Robbins...