HEIGHT AND WEIGHT OF CUBAN TEACHERS. 487 



forded our male students, begun to show the expected results by a 

 general increase of weight and stature, that has not yet been attained 

 by our college women? Can it be true that our American women are 

 beginning to show the material cost of attempting to build a highly 

 organized brain and maintain their special physiological function at 

 the same time? Although in primitive races the two sexes are almost 

 always more nearly alike physically, perhaps the little contrast between 

 the Cuban male and female teachers as compared with the contrast 

 between the American male and female students, may be due to the 

 superiority of the physique of the Cuban women in comparison with 

 the physique of the Cuban men. This supposition is greatly strength- 

 ened by again comparing the difference in the medium weight of the 

 Cuban male teacher with that of the American student. The latter is 

 20.5 pounds heavier than the former, which is even in excess of the 

 amount which the American male exceeds the American female in 

 weight. On the other hand, we find that the medium American 

 female student exceeds the medium Cuban female teacher by 12.6 

 pounds, which is more than the average Cuban man exceeds the average 

 Cuban woman. The weight of the Cuban man and the American 

 woman is very nearly the same in all of the percentile grades, as will be 

 observed in noticing the close proximity and correspondence of the 

 curves in Chart No. 1. 



The differences in height follow the same general trend as those 

 in weight. (See Table No. 2.) There is a difference of 4 inches in the 

 medium height of the Cuban man and the Cuban woman, while the 

 difference between the American man and the American woman is 5.1 

 inches. In both nationalities there is less comparative difference be- 

 tween the small men and the small women and the large men and the 

 large women, in point of height, in the various percentile grades, than 

 there is difference in weight. The difference between the medium 

 height of the American man and the Cuban man is 3.4 inches, while 

 the difference between the medium height of the Cuban women and 

 the American women is 2.3 inches. Here, again, in all the grades, the 

 comparative differences in height were much less than the compara- 

 tive differences in weight. In this respect it is interesting to note 

 that most of the Cubans gained steadily in weight all the time they 

 were in Cambridge, and many returned to Cuba in a better condition 

 of health than when they came to the United States. 



If we would inquire into the real cause of the diminutive stature 

 and weight of the Cuban teachers of both sexes when compared with 

 our student type, we must begin with the question of race. The 

 agencies, conditions and environment that have been working for 

 generations upon a people stamp their almost indelible effects upon 

 them, and give them the physical characteristics which we readily 



