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...hundred and sixty-eight selected Harvard undergraduates were studied over a period of four academic years, though the work has been interrupted by the war. Some of the findings of the Study, as listed by Professor Hooton, show the following "usual but not invariable characteristics" of "normal" Harvard undergraduates...
...pointed out in these columns several weeks ago, the Grant Study's contribution to the knowledge of man is continuous, for the Study is an institution, not a project. Early this month, a book by Earnest Aa Hooton, professor of Anthropology, will make the first major summing-up of Grant Study experiments...
...Young Man, You Are Normal," Professor Hooton calls his book; in it he describes the findings of the Grant Study of the Hygiene Department, which for the past six years has been making observations on the "normal" young man with funds from the Grant Foundation maintained by W. T. Grant, New York merchant. Professor Hooton did not participate in the study, and his account, which he has summarized for the press, is preliminary, non-technical, and written with the objectivity of an outsider look...
...nature of the study, says Professor Hooton, is an investigation of the physiques, mentalities, temperaments, personality traits, and social backgrounds of "normal" Harvard undergraduates...
Professor Hooton notes, finally, that the size of the Grant sample "is too small to permit the present findings to be regarded as anything more than suggestive and tentative. If the Study is continued and the series is enlarged, the result may well be an invaluable contribution to the knowledge of the whole man, the total human being...