MUSCLES PUT TO WORK

Fundamental in the Harvard system of education is a well balanced program of physical training, well geared to correct the student's athletic deficiencies and designed to turn him out a more co-ordinated muscular machine than he was before. For over a period of 20 years exhaustive work in this direction has been supervised by Assistant Director Norman W. Fradd whose announcement yesterday pointed to the unprecedented success of his study and emphasized the importance of his contribution to the development of "normal young men."

When Fradd first arrived on the scene only 20 undergraduates in each class could be judged perfect in posture and muscular activity; today the figure is nearer 100. His energies have extended beyond the scope of the College and into the training of boys in their formative years through reports and athletic programs sent back; to various preparatory schools. That Harvard can boast today a sturdier and more vigorous group of men is in no small measure directly the result of his personal efforts.

While the director's work has been most successful in the field of students between school and Freshman years, another and perhaps more important job lies ahead. His office should next attempt to supplement records compiled for first-year men with similar information in the undergraduates' senior year. Not only would this be a step in the direction of post-graduate training, but the data afforded by comparisons would contribute a great deal towards research to be undertaken in Dr. Bock's Grant Fund program.