Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engaged in a study of the relation between a man's physical build and his career. Working closely with Earnest Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, Stagg has been doing research work on body types based on nude photographs of undergraduates who attended Harvard from 1876 to 1912. Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, who headed physical training at Harvard for forty years, took the photographs and kept a complete medical record, including physical measurements and biographical data. Stagg has been spending most of his time correlating this material with facts about the post-college lives of the graduates being studied...
...break last spring's P.B.H. record blood contribution of 934 pints--largest single civilian contribution in the New England area. One out of every 411 pints given by civilians for Korean use last year came through P.B.H.'s drive which this year is being run in cooperation with Radcliffe, Sargent, Lesley, the Episcopal Theological Seminary, and graduate school organizations...
This investigation is made more valid since in a previous study, body-measurement photographs of some 45,000 American soldiers revealed that men of certain body types were best-fitted to particular jobs. The anthropologists applied this generalization to photographs and biological data collected by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, head of physical training at Harvard for four decades before World War I. One conclusion, for example, was that the muscular, stockey type usually succeeded in engineering, while lightly-built often went into other work...
Uncertanty about draft status had little effect on grades in the College last year, according to figures released yesterday by Registrar Sargent Kennedy...
This year's Fall Reading Period will last only ten days, but harried students have only the Gregorian calendar to blame, Registrar Sargent Kennedy explained yesterday. It seems the length of the pre-exam respite undergoes cyclic variations, and the lean years have...