Late Arrival

In the past 37 years, few students were long in the classes of Harvard Medical School before they heard of Dr. William A. Hinton. He was a painstaking scientist who had spent almost a lifetime improving the methods of detecting and treating venereal disease, had invented the famed Hinton flocculation test for syphilis. Med students knew him as a rotund man with a flair for rolling rhetoric that sometimes left them applauding in the aisles at the end of lectures.

Dr. Hinton was also the only Negro on the medical-school staff, and promotions were slow in coming. For years he was merely an instructor, was not made a lecturer until 1946. Last week, at 65, William Hinton got an overdue reward. He became Clinical Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology--the first Negro professor Harvard University has had in its 313 years.

Dr. Hinton had company last week. Professor Jay Saunders Redding, 42, of Virginia's Hampton Institute, was appointed Visiting Professor of English at Brown University for the coming academic year. Redding, who took his M.A. at Brown, will be the first Negro to hold professorial rank there. Author (in 1942) of a prizewinning study of Negro life, No Day of Triumph, he will teach courses in short-story writing, English literature, and "The Negro in American Literature."

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