I haven't seen it, but my father, an MIT alum, said on the Beantown side of the
bridge there's a sign (or was in the 40s) that says "_______ to Hell." The
_____ is some sort of linear units. Could it be "smoots?" I kind of remember
something prosaic like "One mile to Hell," but any town where scrod is
eatten probably measure the world in smoots.
> 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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