Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-22
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n Gullivers or giants who will steadily increase in
may, day centuries off, find
of supermen? It almost looks that way
the careful figures kept Yale students during the
past SO years show the direction in which our college
boys COINS -and IL seems that they DO
According these statistics college boys today at
New Haven anyway, stronger, taller, heavier and
younger than their fathers back in 1888 when
the study begun
These conclusions are based on study 900 young
who entered Yales famous portals to acquire an
education Robert j. r. Kiphuth Director OF the Yale
Gymnasium compiled these figures. William Deegan,
in the Physical Education Department of the
University quotes them in statistical study OF his that
appeared recently the Research Quarterly official pub
hcaon American Association for Health Physical
Education and Recreation.
The outstanding thing these figures tell Is tnat here
surprising increase in the number Of sixooers
Today says the study 22e per cent of the men who
Yale in the last class to be tabulated In the
survey sixfooters great increase over the first
studied SO years ago which had only Al of its
members IL inches tall
The freshman class that entered Yale last year
also the the colleges history to have members
average height of 70 inches against ST. inches
for the 1883 group This Is another proof that college
boys getting bigger all the time.
The weight these boys has also shown an increase
The lads away back in the sos had average weight
of 1877 pounds The last freshman the college
averaged 1874 pounds heavier ISL pounds IN weight
though the age Of these modern youths has now
declined from 10 years 1883 to 1873 years today.
ITO date" writes Mr.. Deegan mo simple definite
given for this condition. but such factors
preventive medicine resulting In an increased immunity
contagious diseases an improved knowledge OF deteuc
principles plus their application in practice and generally
higher standards OF account some TOT
this upward trend
1T is certainly true that public schools show in
enrolment the past fifty This ever
widening range of education has been accompanied by
welrounded programs OF physical training ana nealu
campaigns"
Department Physical Education at Dartmouth College
conclusion similar to that Of the Yale authori-
ties He too found that college boys-ths time at
Dartmouthweie taller, heavier and younger than ever
before that colleges history.
his belief physical facts and figures that
had gathered by the college period of
than 30 years. good start had been made by the
late Or. John Bowler who at one time, the entire
school DR. Bowler kept these figures
very carefully and accurately that today they offer
good for comparison with recent figures.
Dartmouth has tabulated the average height weight
and age of entering classes graduating
1908 when physical activities considered valuable
only Of keeping boys out OF mischief or
good way for them 10 use UP their excess energy
IF divide the periods between 1905 and 1897 into
decades" Professor Delehanty says find that the
average freshman from 1908 to 1917 weighed 134
pounds 67s inches tall and 191 years old Dur
ing decade from 1918 to 1927 he weighed 1855
pounds was inches tall and 1873 years old And
in the decade 1928 1897 he weighed 1886
pounds 6S 9 inches tall and 1875 years old
The for the entering classes of 1898 to 1913
startling weight 100 height 693 and age
down 70 1906 This average shows that the entering
the last years IL % pounds heavier
fun inch taller and eight and half months younger
than the average for the classes l907-l93S.
Nor this tendency at all peculiar TO Dartmouth
College. a few physical surveys other institutions
both mems and womens have produced similar results
In spite Of the notions which 10 persist especial
" among members OF the older generation that the
students Of today physically inferior those the
good days the Professor says this not true.
THE muscular development that formerly achieved
by wood-choppng snow-shovelng and other laborious
tasks is achieved in other ways, Not only is the
student developed physically, but he is trained skls
sports order that ne carry developments
after he leaves school and college"
All this is good 20 the in charge Of our
fighting who will have under them thousands
college-trained young physically fit,
dollar and bigger today than tho fighting men who rallied
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