CONCERNING LOW PROTEIN DIETARIES 139 



Despite the small community to select from, the Anglo -Indian 

 and Eurasian were largely chosen by the athletic clubs to repre- 

 sent their colleges. The results of the tests, which included the 

 usual events 100 yards, hurdles, 220 yards, 440 yards, 

 half, and mile races, broad and high jump, tug-of-war, etc. are 

 very striking. The Anglo-Indians and Eurasians were first and 

 second in nine out of twelve events : the prizes for the com- 

 petitors who won most events, awarded on points, were both 

 secured by Anglo-Indian and Eurasian ; the challenge shield 

 offered for the college whose representatives scored the greatest 

 number of points was won by the college which was almost 

 entirely represented by Anglo-Indians and Eurasians in fact, 

 the Indian students were outclassed in almost every test, whether 

 of strength or skill. 



These results are even more remarkable than they appear at 

 first sight. The students of Anglo-Indian and Eurasian extrac- 

 tion enter college much younger than the Indian students, and 

 are not fully developed until their last two years in residence. 

 The Indian students have large numbers to choose from, and 

 great interest is taken in sports of all kinds, each of the colleges 

 having flourishing athletic, cricket, football, and other clubs. 

 Yet, despite their comparatively insignificant numbers, and their 

 relatively immature age, these Anglo - Indian and Eurasian 

 students were markedly superior to their Indian fellow- students 

 in tests that were strictly comparable. It is not to be under- 

 stood, however, that all Anglo-Indians and Eurasians develop 

 into men superior in physique to the Indians ; the properly fed 

 do, but the cities, and particularly the hospitals, are full of 

 miserable specimens who, owing to their poverty-stricken con- 

 dition, are unable to afford other than the cheapest food materials, 

 and who live on dietaries no better than, if as good as, the poorer 

 classes of Indians. 



Other points of evidence bearing on the question have been 

 put forward. Thus Benedict states, from the results of numerous 

 dietary studies made with different classes of people living under 

 different conditions, that it has been observed that with com- 

 munities a generally low condition of mental and physical 

 efficiency, thrift, and commercial success is coincident with a 

 low proportion of protein in the diet. He cites the negro and 

 poor white of the South, and the Italian labourer of Southern 

 Italy, all of whom partake of diets relatively low in protein, 



