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Fundamental in the Harvard system of education is a well balanced program of physical training, well geared to correct the student's athletic deficiencies and designed to turn him out a more co-ordinated muscular machine than he was before. For over a period of 20 years exhaustive work in this direction has been supervised by Assistant Director Norman W. Fradd whose announcement yesterday pointed to the unprecedented success of his study and emphasized the importance of his contribution to the development of "normal young...
When Fradd first arrived on the scene only 20 undergraduates in each class could be judged perfect in posture and muscular activity; today the figure is nearer 100. His energies have extended beyond the scope of the College and into the training of boys in their formative years through reports and athletic programs sent back; to various preparatory schools. That Harvard can boast today a sturdier and more vigorous group of men is in no small measure directly the result of his personal efforts...
Harvard students stand straighter, have better muscular co-ordination today than their predecessors in the period just after the war. Such is the conclusion reached by Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, in a survey of research and training programs, extending over a period of 20 years in University service...
Fradd scoffs at body-building correspondence courses, advertised in many magazines. "Music size does not necessarily indicate power," he said. "It is the co-ordinated whole, rather than the bulk which determine physical fitness and muscular agility." Trend of Posture Ratings Grades...
Died. Sylva Eugenie Davis, 20, courageous paralytic, in her sleep; in Kansas City. Suffering from spastic paralysis (the nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing muscular rigidity), she decided last winter to take the 50-50 chance of a surgical operation which might help her, might kill her (TIME, March...