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When the information cards were processed by the machine, they showed that lean and nonmuscular Harvard students tended to become Government officials or parsons. Moderately lean students with better muscles than average often became successful scientists. Harvard-bred artists usually developed out of students with medium fleshiness and below-par muscles. The heavy but muscular students went in for the practical callings of engineering or business and generally succeeded, while lighter-bodied competitors dropped out. A few of the Harvard men sank to manual labor, but only the poorer-muscled ones stayed at that level all their lives. The better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fateful Bodies | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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