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...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...
Stocky, muscular college students are likely to succeed in engineering; portly young men with substandard muscles are better off in the law. These are conclusions of Frederick L. Stagg, Harvard research fellow in physical anthropology, who specializes in human bodies and their effects on their tenants...
...career and physical analysis of 2,631 Harvard graduates has helped to substantiate Sheldon's theory of body-types. Sheldon suggested that varying proportions of fat content, muscle content, and body density in individuals indicate different behavior characteristics. In their recent study, Frederick Stagg, Research Fellow in Physical Anthropology, and Professor Earnest A. Hooton find that a definite relationship exists between the pattern of a man's life and his physical make...
According to Stagg, the study reveals that Government officials in the group tend to be lean and unmuscular, scientists moderately thin with better than average muscles. The law profession attracts portly men with a sub-par muscularity, with a smattering of big-muscled "fighting lawyer" types. Artists have a medium fleshiness and below-par muscularity, whereas theology generally attracts lean, unmuscular, lightly-built men with a minority of the muscular "fighting parson" type...
...Stagg finds that a distinctive "American type" body has emerged from the study. "Tall in proportion to body weight, this type stands apart from the men of European parentage and makes up a large percentage of the men in the professions...