Word: stagg
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This is the reflection of Frederick L. Stagg '17, Research Fellow in Physical Anthropology, who is currently 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...
Biographical data on Stagg's own life shows that his world travels and wide experiences would make it difficult to categorize him according to career or life-time activities--the two important factors in his study. Although he is an English subject, Stagg was born in South America and spent his boyhood on his family's Ecuadoran cocoa plantation, second largest in the world. His grandfather had come to South America as a British naval officer who was ordered to protect his expire's interest there after the defeat of Napoleon...
While at Harvard, Stagg concentrated in foreign languages and literatures and took several anthropology courses under Hooton, who was just beginning his teaching career. Stagg was a cartoonist for the Lampoon when Robert Sherwood and John Marquand were writing for it. He helped Sherwood produce a Pudding show, but the cast disbanded when the United States entered World War I, and there was no Pudding musical...
...Stagg enlisted as a private in the British Army and received a commission eight months later. After the war, he traveled in India, studying plantation management by living with cocoa and rubber planters. He returned to Ecuador in 1919 to manage his family's plantation. Later he founded the first meat packing business in Ecuador. During the inter-war period, Stagg traveled so frequently that he can boast, "I have never spent more than two consecutive years on the same continent during the past forty years." His travels took him to China, India, Japan, Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, and Europe...
...Stagg studied the careers of 2,631 Harvard men of the classes of 1876-1912 whose body types had been recorded photographically during undergraduate physical training programs. He coded the information that he gathered and punched it on cards. Then he ran the cards through sorting machines to see how the career of each man compared with his physique...