The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-03-22
THE AVERAGE MAN.
His Size, Weight Strength and
A pPeaIance'
Result Of an Experts Examinations Of Thousands Of COL
Isge Students PecuIafities Of Girls Figures

1.-THE average man" is a phrase fire.
quently employed, but the conception of
which it is the symbol is apt to be ex-
tremely shadowy. 1t has remained for
DIR. Sargent of Cambridge to endOw the
conception with concrete form. With
extraordinary industry he has applied
himself to measuring chests and necks
and hips by the thousands, and biceps
H.. | calves by the tens of thousands, He
las calculated the strength, expressed
in foot pounds, of unnumbered forearms
and backs. The results of his labors con-
sist Of two nude figures modelled in clay.
The first figure is the average, or
composite" of more than 5000 Harvard
men at the age of 81. This type is feet
8 inches in height. He weighs 1873
pounds. He has lung capacity of 24O
inches. His breadth of shoulders is II
inches. His girth of natural chest is SO. 8
inches; of inflated chest 1858. His stretch
of arms is 70.02 inches, which is 2.2
inches greater than his height. Thus
one idol after another is smashed with
the hammer of cold fact, for the rigid
law of ancient art was that the stretch
of arms should always exactly equal the
height. The girth of the types head is
1913 inches, of his hips 35.1 inches. The
strength of his forearm is lOpounds, and
of his back 30S pounds. Standing square
ly, clean limbed, strong necked, he looks
rather like a runner than rover, but
there is nothing sordid, nothing warped,
nothing to indicate the deterioration of
a civilization Of too many wheels, the
stunting and abnormal, one sided devel,
opment due to factory or city life.
In considering the other figure reluc-
tant gallantry must give place to verac-
ity and it must be admitted that the
man is the finer figure of the two. The
face of the average college girl, like that
of the other figure is composite one
and the best that can be said of it is that
it is depressingly solemn in expression
The type is feet . inches tall. She
weighs lis pounds. Her breadth OF
shoulder is Il inches. The girth of hel
natural chest is 300 inches. She can ex
pand that about two inches. Her girtl
of hips is 35.4 inches Her girth of head i.
21.5 inches. Her stretch of arms is g.;
inches. As the college girl is too sensible
TO construct her waist to any considerable
degree, so she is wise enough to give hel
feet plenty of freedom.
The types foot is 8. inches long Hel
waist is "a inches in circumference. He
legs are not well developed. Her girtl
of calf is only 13t inches. In truth tn,
figure has more fragility than that of he,
counterpart, without correspondent!
gain in grace.
1t is when he finishes the results O
his observations as TO temperament, how
ever, that DR.. Sargent approaches mos
closely to dangerous ground for he de
clares that the typical college girl stu
dent is distinctly nervo- bilious. Thi
seems like a maliclously devised schem
on the part of the doctor to forestall crit
icism from the girls.
The shrewd, scientific expert ha
doubtless conceived the notion of put
ting their very criticisms in evidence t
prove his sweeping assertion. He wi
scarcely succeed, however, in propitiat
ing the ladies by the deprecatory re
mark that his lay figure is not that of a
50 or 80 per cent girl; that it represent
merely 80 per cent of their good point.
and is halfway from the best to tn
worst.-Philadelphia Record.