Word: fradd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year Mr. Fradd photographs the Freshman class and picks out the round-shouldered from their straighter-backed fellows. About one in five of the residents of the Yard join his posture class, that innocuous gathering which spends six weeks in corrective exercises. Mr. Fradd is an experienced practitioner, several of the larger New England private schools have engaged his services in order to teach their pupils to hold their noses up, and his success in that field has been marked. In his six weeks of Freshman training he does as much as is possible to untwist scholarly spines...
...Although only four years old, the New Indoor Athletic Building had become inadequate for the present needs of the University," said Norman W. Fradd, the director of that building. Mr. Fradd did not explain further in what way facilities had proven insufficient...
Approximately 210 men will be required to attend the special exercise classes held three times a week, but these classes are also open to anybody who may wish to sign up. They are given for a six week's period by Norman W. Fradd, and include exercises to improve the posture and to strengthen the back...
...attempt to reduce the casualty list this year the entire squad has been given daily conditioning drills by Norman Fradd, director of Physical Education. These drills are a good workout in themselves, and it may be that Casey felt his "A" and "B" squads needed a rest when he called off their scrimmage yesterday. Workouts have been unusually hard so far this season...
This year Casey has retained a squad of 57, which is considerable larger than usual. Norman Fradd, director of Physical Education, has been giving the entire squad daily exercises to get the men in condition and toughen them up, in order to avoid the injuries that were so fatal to the 1932 team. The first scrimmage was held on Tuesday and a second one yesterday afternoon...