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squad were pitted against eleven men from the college body in an 

 arm-holding contest for endurance. The arms were held extended, 

 palms down, at the level of the shoulder. The number of men fall- 

 ing out were practically the same in both squads ; as a matter of fact, 

 7 in the diet squad and 8 in the uncontrolled squad held their arms 

 out for one full hour. 



Two of the men had chronic bad noses. One was operated 

 upon during the test and the other should have been. Aside from 

 these two, the prevalence of colds during the period was about the 

 same as with the other college students. During the study three 

 men underwent ether narcosis for operations (on nose, foot, and 

 hemorrhoids) and made rapid recoveries. One man at the lowest 

 period of weight contracted what was diagnosed by three physicians 

 as typhoid fever, although the final course of the disease seemed to 

 leave the diagnosis somewhat in doubt. He ran through a very 

 high fever, and was critically ill for some time, but has made a com- 

 plete convalescence and recovery and has returned to college. 



The most noticeable discomfort experienced by the subjects was 

 a feeling of cold, which it is only fair to say might be due in large 

 part to the severity of the past winter. In general, notwithstanding 

 the very great reduction in the metabolism, which we believe was 

 due to the removal from the body of the stimulus to cellular activity 

 of approximately 150 grams of " surplus nitrogen," the whole period 

 of lowered food intake had no untoward effect upon the physical or 

 mental activities, and the men were able to continue successfully 

 their college duties. 



When the second squad was put upon a restricted diet, the pic- 

 ture exhibited by the first squad was strikingly duplicated in all 

 details, although, as the loss in weight was obviously not so great 

 with the second squad (6 per cent, as compared with 12 per cent.) 

 the phenomena were quantitatively somewhat less emphasized. 



At the conclusion of the entire research the men presented an 

 appearance not unlike the average college student ; it would have 

 been difficult to pick them out from the rest of the college body on 

 the campus. On close inspection the members of the diet squad 

 would perhaps have appeared somewhat emaciated, particularly in 

 the face, but they were performing their duties as college students, 



PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC, VOL. LVII, GG, SEPT. 24, I918. 



