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When reached for comment last night, Earnest Hooton, professor of Anthropology, told the CRIMSON he considered the move a "perfectly logical proposition." People are getting bigger all the time, he said...
...order to save the University considerable expense, however, Hooton suggests: "let the students lie diagonally...
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...
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 joined his old instructor, Hooton, in 1946. Since then he has been able to interview the one-third of the 2,361 subjects of his study who are still alive. In addition, he has spent thousands of hours looking over alumni records, class reports, biographical works, and University archives. Results of his findings will appear in scientific publications and book form next year...