Elis Compelled to Take Fatigue Test

The Harvard Fatigue Laboratory's physical fitness test has been adopted by Yale University and will soon be given to all Elis. Dr Kiphuth, Yale's physical education director, has announced that Naval R.O.T.C. students will take the exam first and all remaining men will be expected to undergo it later.

Developed by Dr. Lucien Brouha of the Fatigue Laboratory here, the test aims at "a simple, rapid means of assessing the physical fitness of a normal healthy man for heavy muscular work."

Test Given To All '46

Simple in form, the procedure merely requires the subject to step up and down from a small stool with a lead-weighted haversack on his back. From pulse readings immediately after the exertion and at intervals during the next five minutes, a score can be computed which classifies the subject as poor, average, good, or superior.

Dr. Brouha first used the test last spring on 100 Harvard undergraduates undergoing the program of conditioning exercises. Simultaneously he tested a crew team made up of athletes under strict training. Results were so encouraging that the entire entering Freshman class received the test on June 26 and 27. Also, applicants for the Army Enlisted Reserve have been required to take the test.