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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stocky, muscular college students are likely to succeed in engineering; portly young men with substandard muscles are better off in the law. These are conclusions of Frederick L. Stagg, Harvard research fellow in physical anthropology, who specializes in human bodies and their effects on their tenants...
...career and physical analysis of 2,631 Harvard graduates has helped to substantiate Sheldon's theory of body-types. Sheldon suggested that varying proportions of fat content, muscle content, and body density in individuals indicate different behavior characteristics. In their recent study, Frederick Stagg, Research Fellow in Physical Anthropology, and Professor Earnest A. Hooton find that a definite relationship exists between the pattern of a man's life and his physical make...
According to Stagg, the study reveals that Government officials in the group tend to be lean and unmuscular, scientists moderately thin with better than average muscles. The law profession attracts portly men with a sub-par muscularity, with a smattering of big-muscled "fighting lawyer" types. Artists have a medium fleshiness and below-par muscularity, whereas theology generally attracts lean, unmuscular, lightly-built men with a minority of the muscular "fighting parson" type...
...Stagg finds that a distinctive "American type" body has emerged from the study. "Tall in proportion to body weight, this type stands apart from the men of European parentage and makes up a large percentage of the men in the professions...
...Stockton, Calif., Amos Alonzo Stagg, football's lean and slippered pantaloon, sat down to his 89th birthday dinner (half cup of pea soup, two ears of corn, peaches and milk-"Never any fuss about birthdays at our house") and made plans for his 62nd year of coaching. This fall he will return to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where he has been co-coach with his son Amos Alonzo Jr., 52, for the past four years...