Word: fradd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the squash courts under the guidance of Mr. W. H. Geer, Mr. D. J. Kelly and Mr. N. W. Fradd, they will be conducted on a tour of investigation of all the athletic facilities of the University. Reassembling at Hemenway Gymnasium about 4 o'clock, they will be addressed by Dean Henry Wyman Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, who will speak on the opportunity in the Graduate School to take courses leading to the Master's degree of Education in the field of physical education. Mr. Geer will follow with a resume of the present...
...There has also been some interesting work done by this department," said Mr. Fradd. "Several years ago we had a case of a young man who woke up one morning and found the whole side of his face paralyzed, and doctors were unable to assign any particular cause for it. In six weeks under Mr. Neudorf the action of the facial muscles was entirely restored. Another man who had been fencing with his room-mate was pierced through the eye by the point of a foil, and although the sight was not impaired, his entire left side was paralyzed. Leaving...
...Human Repair Shop" is the name that has been applied to that bureau of the department of Physical Education under the direction of Mr. Fradd. The regulations governing freshman physical training permit no man to be excused because of physical disability. "The layman's idea that the gymnasium is no place for the physically unfit is absolutely wrong" said Mr. Fradd. "It is just the place where he should go. Much of his shyness comes from his hesitation to exhibit his infirmity, and the impression that there is nothing...
...recently established department of Physio-Therapy also comes under the direction of Mr. Fradd. This department takes care of all kinds of injuries from sprained ankles, synovitus, back strains, post-operative treatment of broken bones or appendicitis to the therapeutic means of dry or moist heat and massage, and the entire time of one instructor, Mr. Hans Neudorf, is required for the 15 to 25 men who daily come to him for treatment...
...There is some kind of exercise for every man in college," Mr. Fradd concludes. "These results are not at all remarkable, but just the product of application to meet individual needs. We are only skimming the surface of the work we hope to accomplish in the future...