Posted on 06/14/2011 5:37:13 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Your point is very well-taken. I tell my students all the time that at their age their faces do not yet show lifetime habits of character and disposition, but that you can tell a good from a bad person—or at least a pleasant from a cranky one—if they are fifty years of age or older. Same general point.
“The Smithsonian Institution has cut off all public access to a collection of nude photographs taken of generations of college students, some of whom went on to become leaders in American culture and government.
The pictures at first were taken to study posture. Later they were made by a researcher examining what he believed to be a relationship between body shape and intelligence.
All freshmen here at Yale and at some of the other colleges and universities involved were required to pose in the nude. Among those who were presumably subject to the practice are George Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton, but it is not known whether their photos ever wound up at the Smithsonian, which, although having made its collection of the pictures available to researchers, has never displayed them.”
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“The frontal and profile “posture” photos were taken beginning in the early 1900’s as part of physical education classes, because poise and balance were considered an integral part of health.
Later, other photographs were taken by W. H. Sheldon, a researcher who believed that there was a relationship between body shape and intelligence and other traits.
Mr. Sheldon has since died, and his work has long been dismissed by most scientists as quackery. But it was apparently respected from the 1940’s through the 1960’s, because highly regarded colleges like Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, Princeton, Vassar and Swarthmore allowed him access to their students.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/21/us/nude-photos-are-sealed-at-smithsonian.html
Neither Clinton was ever a “freshman” at Yale, both attended Law School there, where they met, to the detriment of the Nation, humanity and the history of the world.
Hillary went to Wellesley.
... as did my grandmother. She and her twin sisters were girls from rural Illinois looking to marry Haavaad men, her sister got one, she settled for an MIT guy. Haavaad men were the main pursuit of sWellesley girls in my grandmother's day.
Bill went to Georgetown, then got a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he left under clouded circumstances.
Capitalism has done this already. Look at any fast food restaurant and you'll see symbols everywhere from the kitchen to the bathrooms. If allowed to the less bright would be fully and gainfully employed, but government doesn't allow it.
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