MIT celebrates all things 'Smoot'

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Oliver Smoot was the shortest pledge in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958 when its members decided to lay him on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. After discovering that Smoot measured 5 feet 7, they marked the bridge in those increments, with an eventually exhausted Smoot getting up and down for each measurement.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/04/smo....ap/index.html