'Subversive' Rulings Get Frosty Reception from University

Reactions to the "totalitarian, fascist, communist, or subversive" organization list released from Washington Thursday were mixed in local College quarters yesterday, with little Indication of any overt response.

Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, made the official University position clear when he stated that the Attorney General's action would "in no way affect" the Faculty position on American Youth for Democracy, one of the 71 organizations and 11 schools challenged by the government.

Regarding the New Student, proposed publication of HYD which was cleared for release Tuesday, Watson declared that these latest developments would not make the faculty committee renege on its previous decision.

Of chief municipal interest among the groups called into question was the Samuel Adams School of 37 Province Street, near City Hall. Director Harrison L. Harley, "a Harvard philosophy Ph.D." as he pointed out last night, cited several University faculty members who had given courses at the modest institution.

At present a trustee of the School, and now in Prague, professor of History F. O. Matthiessen was described by Harley as "the most active now."

Last year Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, gave a course on the literature of Industrialization. Educator Robert Ulich, Economist Alvin II. Hansen, and Physicist Wendell H. Furry have contributed occasional lectures and advice.

Harry A. Mendelsohn '48, president of HYD, issued a strong statement condemning "the little list" of Attorney General Clark as "subversive in itself."

His organization, he declared, was interested in defending the rights of minorities preserving "non-imperialistic" international peace, and fighting for the status of youth, "particularly in educational matters."