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Howard Gillette '35, assistant to the vice president for alumni affairs and development, said yesterday that the program, instituted last year, is designed to recapture the interest of those alumni who were active in the alumni association during the Pusey Administration, but have since lost touch with Harvard.
Gillette, coodinator for Harvard Today, said he believes that the program's primary purpose is to "create salesmen for Harvard around the country," He said he is "pleased with the very enthusiastic response" the program received after the first year.
Gillette did not know the exact cost of the program, which includes food and housing for the alumni, but said that it was heavily dependent on the number of alumni invited from the Boston area.
A permanent procedure for deciding which alumni should be invited has not yet been established, Gillette said, but he said he feels that in a few years an invitation will carry a great deal of prestige.
There are, of course, gaffers who insist that the one true Sherlock Holmes was William Gillette, who made a career early in this century playing the detective in a drama he devised from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. There are also striplings who claim, in their innocence, that...