Word: ages
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...nineteen is 139.4 pounds or 1.7 pounds more than the average of the Yale Class of 1910 on entering college. However, at the end of Senior year we note an increase of 14.6 pounds or 6.6 pounds more than the average boy of the same age according to the Donaldson table, an increase which must be considered large in view of a previous statement that the growth power during this period is exceedingly small. For an explanation of this difference we have recourse to two great facts, namely, the increased facilities for exercise and physical development, and the increasing number...
...Gould had occasion to examine 291 normal and healthy students from the Senior and Junior classes at Yale and Harvard. From these examinations he compiled the following statistics, with which we compare the measurements of the present class: 1910. 1864. Senior Class. Dr. Gould's Statistics. Age 22.2 21.7 Height 68.1 in. 68.09 in. Weight 152.3 lbs. 136.1 lbs. Girth-- Neck 14.3 in. 13.1 in. Chest, nor. 36.9 in. 35.3 in. Chest. in. 38.7 in. 36.7 in. Chest...
...play which has been selected for revival is an eighteenth century comedy by Thomas Shadwell. It is an arraignment of the foppery of the age which it represents and is full of funny characters and humorous situations perfectly intelligible to the present-day audience...
...with the organized cheers with which the people greeted the Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint and investigate the matter. It seems likely that information is easily available as to the date when organized cheering first appeared here, and as to the source whence the custom was derived...
...been reported that the rules of Oxford University in regard to qualifications for athletic sports, affecting Rhodes scholars, will be changed, the new rules including merely an age limit. If the change is effected, Rhodes scholars, at present debarred from many athletic activities, will be elegible if they are under the age limit...