Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test has also been given in a modified form to the Radcliffe girls, suiting the required work to female capacities. Dr. Brouha preferred to remain discreetly silent about the scores made by the girls, being fearful of inspiring too much confidence in the stronger...
...history of the Step Test begins back in 1927 in the Fatigue Lab. There Dr. Arlie V. Bock, head of the Hygiene Department, and Dr. David B. Dill, now director of the Fatigue Lab, with their co-workers and under the leadership of the late Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, former director of the Lab, began the study of the normal human being's reactions to muscular exercise. They were aiming to use their findings principally in connection with industrial fatigue...
...only be means of the complicated and expensive apparatus shown attached to Sid Robinson in the above picture, the cardiotachometer, which picks up through chest electrodes the electrical variations that accompany each heart beat. This technique couldn't be applied extensively for practical purposes, but fortunately, part of the test conclusions also showed that there are differences in the heart rate after exercise of a fit and unfit person. Drs. Robert E. Johnson, Robert Darling, and Brouha found that it was possible to get a satisfactory estimate of general fitness by measuring the heart rate at three convenient intervals during...
...here that Dr. Brouha came in with the innovation that has led the Step Test to be referred to almost as often as the "Brouha I'est." In seeking to adapt the material of the Fatigue Lab experiments to a practical test, he developed the present procedure which requires only a stepping platform 20 inches high...
Princeton has expressed interest in the Step Test and may be the next to take stock of the condition of its students. In fact, before long the Brouha Step Test may spread over the whole country, for as far as is known, this test is the only one in existence for accurately measuring general fitness for hard work in normal, healthy persons...