Apeil 3, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



549 



not an infallible index of that. We are con- 

 sidering now what he accomplished intel- 

 lectually in the work prescribed by his in- 

 structors. It should also be borne in mind 

 continually that the comparison is not of the 

 students taking normal physical exercise with 

 those who do not, but of those in strenuous 



77 



76 

 75 



74 

 73 

 72 



71 

 70 

 69 

 68 

 67 

 66 

 65 

 64 



non-athletes in college varies between Y2 and 

 76 in the different years, while that of the 

 athletes lies between 66 and 75. The averages 

 for the whole period are: of non-athletes 74.4 

 per cent., and of athletes 70.4 per cent., a 

 difference of four per cent. The most re- 

 markable fact shown by the comparison, how- 



78 

 77 

 76 

 75 

 74 

 73 

 72 

 71 

 70 

 69 

 68 

 67 

 66 

 65 

 64 



Chaet II. Showing the scholastic standing of students at Amherst College on the 

 varsity track, baseball and football teams as compared with the rest 

 of the student body in the years 1886 to 1903. 

 — non-athletic track team base ball team I44^HM foot ball team 



athletic competition with those not so engaged. 



The averages of the three teams mentioned 

 have been taken separately and conjointly for 

 the years 1886 to 1903 and are indicated graph- 

 ically on the accompanying charts, I. and II., 

 in comparison with the averages of the non- 

 athletic students. On each of these charts 

 the years are indicated at the top and the 

 grades at the sides. So the rise or fall of the 

 lines shows a commensurate rise or drop in 

 scholarship. 



In Chart I., which contains the conjoint 

 averages of all three teams, comprising 318 

 different athletes and 1,692 different non- 

 athletes, a total of over 2,000 different men, it 

 will be noted that the average scholarship of 



ever, is that in the whole eighteen years the 

 average of athletes rises above that of non- 

 athletes but once, and that once after the 

 scholarship rules for athletes were made and 

 enforced in 1896. (See arrows on the chart.) 



In Chart II., where the team averages are 

 plotted separately, the additional information 

 is brought out that on the average the track 

 team stands highest, the baseball about one per 

 cent, below, and the football some two per 

 cent, below that, the football team never 

 equaling the average of the non-athletes in 

 college the same year. 



The statistics at Amherst thus corroborate 

 those published by Professor Foster from 

 Bates, Bowdoin and the Maine preparatory 



