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STUDENTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY STUDY TWO "PERFECT" GIRLS

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By using liye girls instead of books, two Yardlings, Aubrey Gould '43 and Robert Cooney '43, claim to have found the solution to the old problem of combining homework with pleasure.

Told by their Anthropology instructor, Marshall T. Newman, to take measurements of 25 people at random in order to classify them racially, Gould and Cooney used terms from "ace flatng" to "alf prog" and simply "squeeze" to measure everything from the curvature of the hair to the shape of the fingernails of 25 Bishop Lee Dramatic School girls.

As a result of work at the school, the scientists found two "perfect" girls, Georgine L. Taylor and Katherine Good.

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