Hans Neudorf---Strongfort---Atlas Develops Chests of Weak or Anemic Harvard Students

Right here in Harvard Square there is a man who compares favorably with Lionel Strongfort, Earle Liederman, Charles Atlas and all the others who advertise regularly in Bernarr McFadden's lurid periodicals. But the fact that this gentleman confines himself almost entirely to Harvard students and portly professors, lends an air of respectability to his course in physical development.

Once described as "the man with the only 100 per cent perfect physique," Hans Neudorf, with a small office at 18 Brattle Street, still caters to persons wishing to become enviable specimens of muscular perfection.

But Neudorf is not a specialist in putting two inches on your biceps in a week. "No, I don't teach any of this strongman stuff. By practicing gymnastics as I teach them, a man can gain muscular coordination as well as a powerful build. No Tarzan tactics in my classes."

None of the apparatus, which is the source of income for the more optimistic body-builders, litters up the office of the Harvard Square Hercules. Just a small bare room opening off the entrance hall suffices. The course will bring back memories to any football player or swimmer, or poorly developed Freshman of the courses given by the University's calisthenic directors.

Harvard Football players of a few years ago will remember Neudorf just as vividly as those this year know the torture of the first few workouts that Norman W. Fradd puts them through, for the Brattle Street gymnast is a former instructor in Physical Education at Harvard.

Even Hemingway Gymnasium with its pictures of Harvard Apollo's cannot compare with this small gym whose walls are covered with photographs of Greek gods, proteges of Neudorf and other examples of perfect physical development. He has taken moving pictures of some of his classes turning handsprings, twisting themselves into triangles and hopping around with the abandon of sylphs. But none of these productions can rival the gilded photographs of Neudorf himself, resplendent in tights which conceal beneath their briefness the body of the "only perfect man."