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To: rupert1 who wrote (49389)	2/24/1999 7:31:00 AM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Victor:***************OT******************* You were close and I saw no point in embarrassing you. BTW, a preoccupation with measurements and body form continued in the U.S. into the 1970s, WAY after social scientists ceased measuring "primitive" peoples. All entering students to Harvard used to be measured and then a cast of the "average" entering freshman made. One of these casts, of a student in the 1940s, used to be in a display case on the top floor of the museum, in a hallway by a classroom [and therefore seldom seen by the public]. It might still be there. The rest were stored in the basement. Female students were not measured but were "evaluated" by posture pictures and, at some schools, "Basic motor skills" classes for everyone who received a failing grade for the posture picture [which most did because it is very difficult to stand straight when being photographed--naked]. Folklore had it [at the time] that students at the male schools used to steal the posture pictures. Fact is that many of these pictures ultimately went to the Smithsonian Institute since this study was funded, at least for a number of years, starting in 1948, by the National Science Foundation. The Smith College alum (all female school) were able to force the destruction of their posture pictures a few years ago. Pictures of female students from other schools? The schools give song-and-dance answers which many alum take as a refusal to tell the truth. Oh, it was only students at private colleges and universities that were put under the microscope. If the study included schools in various regions of the U.S. or was restricted to NE schools I do not know. Lynn