Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Push-ups and knee bends are serious business to 45 veterans vigorously remolding their war-damaged bodies under a program sponsored by the College Hygiene and Physical Training Departments...
...rehabilitation program is not intended merely for veterans. Injured athletes have taken advantage of it, as well as other University non-vets injured in auto smashes, explosions, and other disabling accidents...
...rehabilitation programs pays off. Take, for instance, a sophomore whose service cost him both his legs. After a year in the program, the man became a competent volleyball player, and now has developed so much skill in handball that he frequently beats program director Lloyd C. Harper...
...basic method of the program is to build up frail muscles by special exercises until they will be able to hear the burden of normal living. Men with severe injuries first work out in the gym on wall weights and other devices. When they have developed sufficient strength, they transfer to more enjoyable activities such as rowing or swimming...
Although he is generally quite happy ever the results of the program, some events have left Dr. Thorndike in despair. A certain Eliot House veteran, after exercising a shattered arm into workable condition during the school year, wound up in a summer vacation accident and re-broke the limb in an identical place. He's hard at work again right now, with a good chance of regaining full use of the limb...