Edward Kennard Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, emeritus, died of a heart attack Sunday afternoon at the age of 73. One of Harvard's best known, most honored, and best liked professors, Professor Rand was an internationally renowned classical scholar.

During the war he was active in the American Defense-Harvard Group faculty committee, and early in the war was an advocate of American collaboration with Britain and France. Saying the represented thousands of people "who have the sense to come in out of the rain," he wrote Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. in 1940 urging that 50 destroyers be sent to England at once.

Professor Rand pointed out that Hitler's program for Germany represented "a patent threat to the spirit and form of our government and to the whole American way of life."

Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock with a requiem mass at the Church of the Advent in Boston. Professor Rand died quietly, book in hand, shortly after he stepped into his library after a stroll in his garden.

A commuter from Watertown who worked his way through College, Rand became a friend and adviser to Presidents Eliot, Lowell and Conant. He retired as a professor emeritus in 1943.