Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...between the Cambridge High and Latin Schools and the Rindge Technical School. The boys will be divided into two groups, those in the first group being over 5 feet, 5 inches tall, and those in the second being less than that in height and not over 16 years of age. Competition will be held in the runs up to the half-mile and in the broad jump, high jump, and 12-pound shot-put. There will also be special events for freshmen. The school winning the meet will be given a shield, and the individual point winners will be given...
...contrast, have never gone through any sifting process. Of course they have been subject to examinations like all schoolboys everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...
...Curtis '14, bow. Age 21; height 6 ft., 1 in.; weight 170 pounds...
...Congleton '14, coxswain. Age 20; height 5 ft., 8 in.; weight 101 pounds...
Average (without coxswain) age, 21; height, 6 ft., 1 1-2 in.; weight, 166.6 pounds...