Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mile Run.--Coburn, Lund, Lutz, Pratt...
...psychology at Harvard; Dr. Frank N. Hankins, now professor of sociology at Smith; Dr. Kimball Young, assistant professor of psychology at Clark who leaves next month for Oregon; Dr. Harry E. Barnes, professor of history at Clark, who leaves in a few weeks for Smith; Dr. Carroll C. Pratt, instructor in psychology and philosophy at Harvard. The gist of the charges published was that the president had purposely neglected and injured the famous graduate schools in favor of his own department of geography, and that the president had weakened the morale of the faculty and destroyed that of the student...
...Herbert L. Pratt has been chosen to be the head of the Standard Oil Company of New York, to replace Mr. Henry C. Folger, who resigned shortly after the Board of Directors failed to secure the stockholders' consent to an increase of capitalization from $225,000.000 to $300,000,000. This shift in the oil line-up has drawn public attention to the personalities, policy, present condition and past history of this oldest of American trusts...
Herbert L. Pratt was born in Brooklyn in 1871, and took a degree of Bachelor of Arts at Amherst in 1895. He is director of several companies, including the Asia Banking Corporation and the Bankers' Trust Company, Manhattan...
More prominent than either Pratt or Folger in Standard Oil circles is Alfred C. Bedford, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Like; Pratt, the moving spirit of the oil industry is a Brooklynite. He is 59 years old, and was educated in Brooklyn and Europe. He has been in the employ of the Standard Oil since 1882. In 1907 he became a director of the dominant New Jersey Company, of which he has been President since 1916. During the war he was Chairman of the National Petroleum War Service Committee...