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Widely used during the war in Army and Navy pre-flight training, the test was developed six years ago by Dr. Lucien Brouha, formerly a physiologist in the Savant Study's fatigue laboratory...
...greater the feeling of accomplishment you get from leading them," he says. Noted for his jazzed-up cadence counting and melodramatic exhortations, he is impressed with the cooperation he gets. Upperclassmen, he feels, are improving as well as Freshman, 1300 of whom are being tested regularly by the Brouha step test to record the effects of the program...
...September, Dr. Lucion Brouha, developer of the Step Test, found that out of 739 Freshmen tested there were 330 who couldn't reach 76, the average of the College population based on the scores of 2200 students. The average of this group of 330 was 63, ranging from 20 to 75, while the average of all 739 Freshmen tested...
Princeton has expressed interest in the Step Test and may be the next to take stock of the condition of its students. In fact, before long the Brouha Step Test may spread over the whole country, for as far as is known, this test is the only one in existence for accurately measuring general fitness for hard work in normal, healthy persons...
...found the Step Test invaluable, in their aim to put every Harvard student at his maximum and keep him there, so he will be in condition for armed service. "For, in order to decide how much work a boy needs to put him in good physical shape," Dr. Brouha explained, "you must know how much he needs and how much he can take...