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the Academic Department and Scientific School, as I have stated, com- 

 prised all classes, including the short as well as the tall and the weak 

 as well as the strong, and may, therefore, be regarded as fairly repre- 

 sentative of the physique of the college. 



It may surprise many to learn that the strongest men in college 

 as a class are below the average student in stature. This is perfectly 

 consistent with established facts. Strength is more a matter of short- 

 ness and thickness of arms and legs than of great length of limbs, 

 which is likely to be the physical characteristic of speed, as shown by 

 runners and oarsmen, rather than strength and endurance. The 

 superior musculature of the strong man is indicated by his superior 

 weight. In this respect it is observed that he weighs from 7 to 10 

 pounds more than the average student, while he surpasses this man in 

 strength by some 300 points. 



Having ascertained the medium height and weight of what we have 

 termed the average student, let us turn our attention to the same 

 measurements of scholarship men. It is interesting and instructive 

 to observe that the scholarship men when taken in large groups tend 

 to verify the conclusions reached by Drs. Porter, Byer, Christopher, 

 Eoberts, Leharzig and others as to the correlation of a superior mind 

 with a superior body. This is shown rather strikingly by the order 

 in which the scholarship men group themselves according to height, 

 the highest scholars in Group I. being tallest, those in Group II. being 

 nearly one half inch shorter. The scholarships in Group III. are not 

 awarded according to college rank, but for some other special consid- 

 eration. Although the order among the scholarship men themselves 

 remains the same, that is, the highest scholars as represented by Group 

 I. being the tallest, Group II. over one half inch shorter, etc., the great 

 discrepancy between the height of the honor scholarship men, the 

 stipend scholarship men, and the average student seems at once in- 

 consistent with our premises. Although the honor scholarship men 

 have risen nearly three quarters of an inch in height above the average 

 university student of 1880, the average stipend scholarship men as 

 shown in Group 14 (I., II. and III.) are about one quarter of an inch 

 shorter. There is a difference of 1.2 inch between the height of the 

 average student of to-day and the average stipend scholarship men, 

 and a difference of three quarters of an inch between the average 

 stipend scholarship men and the average honor scholarship men. The 

 discrepancy between the average weight of the different groups is not 

 so regular or well marked as that of the height, although it will be 

 observed that there is a difference of 4.4 pounds between the average 

 student and the honor scholarship men and a difference of 8.8 between 

 the average student and the stipend scholarship men. 



The comparison of strength between the average student and the 

 scholarship men is rather more favorable to the latter. Although 



