Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accompanying diagram represents Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart for the plotting of the physical development. "The parts at which the observations were made, are indicated by the list at the left side of the chart. The perpendicular lines divide into classes all of the measurements for each part that were surpassed or unsurpassed by given percentages of the persons examined, as shown by the figures at the top of the chart. The upper number at the top of the line shows the per cent, that at each part surpassed the class indicated by that line. The lower number shows...
...will be allowed to compete unless he has been examined by Dr. Sargent, who will be at the gymnasium from 2 to 4 p. m. Friday to examine contestants...
Still Dr. Sargent felt that a more precise exposition of measurements was needed; one in which the relation of one part to another was determined. Everyone who has attempted to draw any conclusion from the measurements of the body must have realized the need of some guide to show not only the relative standing of one individual as compared with another, but also the relation of every part of the individual to every other part. The same man may be above the normal in one measurement, and below in another. The extent of the variation is the desirable thing...
...meet this difficulty that Dr. Sargent has prepared the anthropometric chart. It is intended to furnish the youth with an incentive to systematic and judicious physical training, by showing them at a glance their relation in size, strength, symmetry and development to the normal standard as deduced from the measurements of ten thousand individuals, ranging from seventeen to thirty years...
PFEIFFER.H. A. A.- Dr. Sargent will be in his office at the gymnasium this afternoon from 2 to 4 to examine contestants for the freshman and University meetings. No one will be allowed to compete unless he has been examined by Dr. Sargent...