Ah yes... the "Smoot!" One night a frat required its new pledge
class to measure the MIT bridge using Mr Smoot's body. I forget
how many Smoots the bridge is, but every year the new pledge
class has to repaint the smootmarks. Last time I walked over the
Charles to Cambridge they were still freshly visible.
- Bill Thoen
"Lavoie, Claude" wrote:
>
> What about this unit of measure the MIT students used to measure a bridge
> over the Charles River in Boston, Mass. (unit corresponding to the height of
> a fellow student)?
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