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...optical illusion" was the candid statement of one baffled (Yardling last week after watching Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education execute a complicated gyration designed to strengthen a music of whose existence most of his charges were completely unaware...
Besides his duties hero, Fradd also handles special infantile cases or others who cannot join in group activities. At present he says that he is hampered by lack or room in which to expand the course entering its twenty-first year...
...twenty years now Fradd has been conducting these Special Corrective Exercise classes designed to improve the physical balance of the Freshman group. Every fall after the physical examinations he selects between a quarter and a third of the yearlings and gives each of these a series of exercises lasting six weeks and intended to increase the mobility of the body and to correct such deformities as round shoulders, away backs, "bay windows", and even flat feet...
David Hyde, instructor in Physical Education, and Lyle Clark; football coach and instructor in Physical Education, are now aiding Fradd by acting as assistants, since classes number only 15 or 20, and from 350 to 300 boys must be instructed each winter...
During the last three years the physical stature of incoming students has greatly improved, the reason for which Fradd thinks lies in the fact that the system of corrective exercises, adopted at many colleges, male and female, has also been taken up in a large number of preparatory schools, to which reports on graduates are sent each year by the Department...