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...Fradd first came here in 1919 as an instructor in physical training after service as director of the physical reconditioning program at Walter Reed Hospital at Washington. After World War I he pioneered a new type of athletic program and more recently introduced the Harvard Step Test, used widely in service camps and now being used here to test the physical fitness of new Freshmen
...recent job Fradd supervised the remedial phase of the rehabilitation program, dealing with men in the latter stages. His work covered the entire area of New England...
...Fradd constantly enlarged his service during the year he worked for the army. He started originally at Fort Devens with 300 casualties from Lovell and Cushing General Hospitals and from several other receiving stations in the area...
After the patients increased to 1,100, Fradd moved to a new Convalescent Hospital at Camp Edwards. Finally on January 5, 1945, he inaugurated a new 6,000 bed reconditioning base hospital at Camp Edwards. The sports facilities used at this new hospital included several playing fields, an enclosed sports arena, a swimming pool, and 16 remedial gymnasiums...
...Fradd put his patients through an intensive ten week physical improvement program to prepare them for active military service of, if they failed to pass regular army physical efficiency, tests, give them medical discharges. In the final stages of this program, calisthenics, marches, obstacle courses, and group games were included...