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After a year of tightening their collective gut, Harvard students "look more like men standing up there," according to the instructors that have been doing the tightening. Norman Fradd, assistant director of physical education, and his gleaming knights of the bicep are satisfied with results so far, and most of them are impressed with the spirit they get from their classes...
...Fradd is the power behind the pushup. In charge of the whole conditioning program, he has been laying the plans on which each day's exercises are based. In conferences with the individual in structors, he points out what he wants emphasized each week, and the men have a certain amount of latitude in devising their own pet contortions to achieve the desired effect...
...Fradd himself takes the 12:15 class, Tony Lupien guides the 2 and 4 o'clock men, Adolph Samborski runs the 4:30 group, and boxer Henry Lamar pounds away at 5:30, taking Lyal Clark's place. Baseballer Lupien's classes are in the Special Exercise Room, the others in the gymnasium...
Before this November notice, these Freshmen were free to exercise as they saw fit. Then from the latter part of November to early December they were trained by Assistant Director of Physical Education Norman Fradd, and his staff...
...Fradd, in his conditioning work, stressed exercises which involved the large trunk muscles--bending and streching in the prone, supine, and sitting positions...