The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-12-27
A Curious Study
BEING CONDUCTED BY
YALE PROFESSOR
Believes That Mans Bodily
NigOr Indicates His
Mental inclinntion.

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PEELED to study Greek while mar
with strong pair of legs is ant to
elect chemistry is the proposition tnat
Dr William e. Anderson. director Of
the Yale gymnasium has set out to
prove.
Dr. Anderson has always held that
a man is inclined to seek q certain
line of education by reason Of The Wig
or Of his body. aud for several months
past he has been study ing the relative
strong physi ,al points Of the Sheffield
Scientific schoo. students and COM
pairing thc'a with the undergraduates
of the academic department 60 deter
mine what data he could collect in
support Of his theory.
So far as has been learned no one
In this country or anywhere else has
ever studied thc relative physical con
clifton of academic students as Compar-
ed with scientific students TO prove
that nc forme- ARE weaker physically
tl.an the latter, sna that Il man studies
languages and literature for example
because his physique is more fitted for
them than for civil engineering
The first results that DR.. Anderson
has secured have heen very encourag-
ing from his point Of yrew. After a
careful examination OF the academic
and the scientific men at Tale this fall
he has Just announced that so lar the
results show that the scientific stud
enis are the stronger physically.
Early in the fall he began in the
gymnasium 70 examine carefully the
two sets of students IN theIr work and
to submit them to certain strength
tests Seventy FIVE men from the
Sheffield Scientific sohooi aud more
than 300 from the academic depart
ment Of thu university were put
through e schedule of tests outlined
by Dr Anderson
Special apparatus was rugged up on
the ton focr of the Yale gymnasium.
Each Of the candidates for the expert.
nent was then first put through the
strength test. The student was requ!r-
ed to pull or push himself up by
weights Gntil he was exhausted Then
his weigh. was taken and the rumher
Of times he raised himself was multi
rlied bv his weight, and the result
was set down on the gymnasium ao-
count against him as his strength
limit.
The Candidate cC1ld raise himself a
foot on move hu, the additional height
/ did NIT count iii his faVnr. as the ex-
Il perimenis were conducted by the rules
of tha iItercoliegiate strength tests,
by which a man has bur to raIse him
self q f9o. TO make his record. BY
these rules also a Sheit ELI nan who
weighed 150 pounds. for example, ha ]
only 10 raise himself len tunes TO
make .e,o,d OF l,5o0 ponds where
as his clgsSmate on the aead' mic dc
partment who y righed leo ponds
would have to raise his weignt FIVE
additional times to equal the record
of the Sheffield man.
The hands. both right and left. we're
tested by n cans Of stvef dynameters
and ihe legs ami Lack OF every na's
were likewise tested by these instru
ments The luLg capacity was taken
10y the sDlrometei. but as This read in
cubic inches the result was divided
by twenty and the luotient IN pounds
was added TO the other fgures, which
gave the n,ar $ sum total Of strength.
These totals we're then compared as
I between tie academic and the Shef
, .ield men. and the latter, according
to Dr. Anderson, in proportion to their
numbers made the best ehowing.
Il am now at work comparing tie
athletic careers in college Of both sets
Of men. said Or Anderson "and this
will be my second step toward the
solution Of this problem. Whether the
scientific department or the college
proper furnishes the greater number OF
athletes is an interesting question, and
one which win help me in gy work.
"a stailstic'an H. now az work go
ing very carefully over ihe university
athletic records, from which we will
ne aole 10 get at tie very facts that
, we want.
1T has always been theory q
mine" continued Dr Anderson. "thal
many men have little chance to choose
their line OF college work, and thai
most Students go into an academic