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Neil H. McElroy '25, former Secretary of Defense, and H. Irving Pratt '26, general chairman of A Program for Harvard college, are among 26 graduates of the University named yesterday as candidates for election to major alumni offices this spring...
...delta-winged, wasp-waisted Convair F106 interceptor, piloted by Major Joseph W. Rogers of Worthington, Ohio, took off from Edwards Air Force Base and climbed to 40,000 ft. (jets are slow at low altitude). Air conditions were ideal; the aircraft and its Pratt & Whitney J-75 engine were new but carefully chosen. In earlier tests, the engine had been revved up until its temperature reached the highest permissible level, and the fuel-input control was set at that point...
...deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000, to boost the pledges to $75 million. No sooner had the word been issued than other Harvard-men jumped in to help raise the remaining $7,500,000. Sample: Fund Chairman H. Irving Pratt dropped a casual note to one alumnus who had already given $100,000, promptly got back a pledge for $100,000 more. From Manhattan, Pratt raised $50,000 with three phone calls in a single hour. One previous giver, listed as possibly good for another $5,000, plunked down...
...order for Statistics to be opened to undergraduate concentration, the committee's recommendations must be accepted by the Department Faculty and passed by the Committee on Educational Policy. Cochran's co-member, John W. Pratt, assistant professor of Statistics, said that "it is likely the plan can be devised and submitted to the CEP by spring, and go into effect in the fall." Both committee members agreed that the Department is "very interested" in making concentration in Statistics possible, either by itself or as part of a combined field...
...major source of interest in Statistics, according to Pratt, would be as part of a combined field involving social relations, biology, economics, mathematics, geology, psychology, medicine, or others. He said a request was received from a student last spring to concentrate in Statistics and linguistical mathematics...