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Developed by Dr. Lucien Brouha of the Fatigue Laboratory here, the test aims at "a simple, rapid means of assessing the physical fitness of a normal healthy man for heavy muscular work...
...Brouha first used the test last spring on 100 Harvard undergraduates undergoing the program of conditioning exercises. Simultaneously he tested a crew team made up of athletes under strict training. Results were so encouraging that the entire entering Freshman class received the test on June 26 and 27. Also, applicants for the Army Enlisted Reserve have been required to take the test...
...Heath gives a complete, two-hour medical examination featuring the usual knee-tapping and blood testing, but with special emphasis on medical history. Dr. Lucien Brouha at the Fatigue Lab is known by many undergraduates as the operator of the seven-mile an hour treadmill, which is designed to exhaust the student. Strapped to the student's chest are electrodes, which amplify his heart beats and record them upon a moving tape. In the first of two sessions at the laboratory, the metabolism and the respiratory pattern of each student are taken, after he has gone breakfastless and has rested...
...four men who spoke were: Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, Lucien Brouha, physiologist to the Grant Study, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government. So far, they have held very different positions on food relief, but they are of one accord that no action should be taken through a private group such as the Hoover Committee, but that the government should be the one to formulate and carry out the work...
Professor Elliott went so far as agreeing to ship vitamins to the children of the occupied countries, in connection with a statement by Dr. Brouha that such supplies would be adequate to maintain the balanced diet of small children...