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CARL SCHIØTZ. 



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from the open-air boarding school Ramsvig, near Stavanger, opened fall 

 of 1920, and the open-air day school Sandaker, near Christiania. The 

 curves fig. 4 are with a small commentary very illustrating: — The long 

 drawn up oblique line indicates average heights of girls in the public 

 schools of Stavanger in the age 7 to 14; the dotted middle oblique line 

 the corresponding for Christiania; the outer oblique lines the borders for 



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the standard deviation for the same ages ^. The short single lines are 

 the individual curves from . Stavanger. By the help of the figures on 

 the abscissa can be read the child's age in years and months at its start 

 and finish at the school. The lines furnished with a ring underneath are 

 the individual curves from Christiania. We see the verv violent growth 

 of height at the open-air boarding school. The large curve everywhere 

 permits comparison with the middle one for the city. We see the very 



° For the benefit of those who have had no invitation to make themselves acquainted 

 with this statistical compend, it should be stated, that in the single year classes 

 — practically told — two thirds of the material lie within these borders. 



