Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-05-02
CUBAN TEACHERS.
Facts Of Interest Relating to Com
parative Heights and WEIGHTS.


were in Cambridge. 1t was a common
remark that they seemed to be in
felior in size and stature to American
teachers and students. During the
first week of August 937 of the Cuban
teachers were weighed at the gym
nasium at Harvard university. OF
these 497 were men and 494 women,
and the reports as to height, weight,
and general physical status are sub
mited in a report by DR.. Dudley Allen
Sargent, published in the Popular
Science Monthly.
Among the American male studen )
measured, for comparison with Cuban
teachers, the shortest was CAT inches
and the tallest 1853 inches. Among
the Cuban male teachers the shortest
was $50 inches and the tallest 75.6
inches. So far as extremes are con-
cerned, it will be seen that there IS
little difference in the two nation
alities, but the medium height of tn ;
American male student is 67.7 inches,
while only 10 per cent. of the Cuban
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The medium height of the Cuban male
teachers was 64.3 inches, but this
height was surpassed by over 80 per
cent. of the American male students.
The height of the tallest American
female student was 71.3 inches, and
the shortest 53.2, while the tallest
Cuban female teacher was $50 and
the shortest 54.7 inches. The me.
dunn height of the American female
student Is 626 inches, and the me-
dunn height of the Cuban teacher COS.
Over 80 per cent. of the American
female students surpassed the stature
attained by so per cent. of the Cuban
female teachers. The medium weight
of the American male student was
134.5 pounds, and of the Cuban male
teachers ia pounds. The medium
weight OF the American female teach
ers was 144.6 pounds, and OF the Gu
ban 1902 pounds. Eighty per cent. OF
the American female students sur
passed the medium weight of the Gu.
ban female teachers.
found, is twelve pounds heavier than
the medium Cuban woman, while the
American woman is 1919 pounds light.
er than the medium American man.
AS our American women have better
opportunities for growth and develop.
ment than the Cuban women, DR. Sar.
gents asks why they do not compare
more favOrably with the American
men in weigh and height than the
Cuban women do with the Cuban men
and adds "It is due to the inferior.
ity of the American women or the
superiority of the American men
Have the admirable opportunities for
physical training and athletics afford
ed our male students begun to show
the expected results by a general in
crease of weight and stature that has
not yet been attained by our college
women? Can it be true that cur
American women are beginning to
show the material cost of attempting
to build a highly organized brain and
maintain their special physiological
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This question DR.. Sargent does not
answer satisfactorily. While the
American male student is twenty
pounds heavier than the Cuban male
teacher, the medium American female
student exceeds the medium female
Cuban teacher by 1916 pounds, which
is more than the average Cuban man
exceeds the average Cuban woman
The difference between the medium
height of the American man and the
Cuban man is "a inches, while the
difference between the medium height
of the American woman and the Gu
ban woman is 2.3 inches.
DR., Sargent believes that the real
cause of the diminutive stature and
weight of the Cuban teachers of both
sexes is in the race. conditions. aud
environment of the Cubans. An
cestry and conditions, DR.. Sargent b.
licvos, count more than tropical
climate in physical deterioration.
The South Sea islanders of the Pacific
are among the tallest and best formed
sionately fond of swimming and gen
eral exercise. The Cubans are not.
American mon and women, as a
rule, take a good deal of exercise
walk with ease and comfort. Our
women, according to DR.. Sargent,
wear shoes ranging from 212 to s,
and our men shoes ranging from .
TO- The Cuban women at Cambridge
almost uniformly wore narrow, point.
cd shoes, with high heels. numbering
in size from to 4, and the Cuban
mon wore the same style of shoe
numbering in size from to 6. Dr.,
Sargcnts observations led him to be-
licvc that the Cubans are not so far
behind the Americans in point Of
mental abnity as they are in lack Of
physical vieor and some moral aim
and purpose to strive for
EDWARD VII. AND THE ACTORS.