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Show THE AVERAGE MAN. Bit Size, Weight, Strength and Appearance Appear-ance From an Expert's Calculation. "The average man" is a phrase frequently fre-quently employed, but the conception of which it is the symbol 1b apt to be extremely ex-tremely shadowy. It has remained for Dr. Sargent of Cambridge to endow the conception with concrete form. With extraordinary industry he has applied himself to measuring chests and necks ' and hips by the thousands, and biceps and calves by the tens of thousands. He has calculated the strength, expressed in foot pounds, of unnumbered forearms and backs. The results of his labors con-1 eist of two nude figures modeled in clay. The first figure is the average, or j "composite," of more than 5,000 Harvard . men at the age of 21. This type is 5 feet 8 inches in height. He weighs 13S .i pounds. He has a lung capacity of 240 inches. His breadth of Bhoulders is 17 inches. His girth of natural chest is 83. 8 inches; of inflated chest 86.8. His stretch of arms is 70.02 inches, which ia 2.2 inches greater than his height. Thus one idol after another is smashed with the hammer of cold fact, for the rigid i law of ancient art was that the Btretcb of arms should always exactly equal the height. The girth of the type's head is 22.3 inches of his hips 35.1 inches. The rtrength of his forearm is 110 pounds, and of his back 303 pounds. Standing squarely, square-ly, clean limbed, strong necked, he look? rather like a runner than a rower, but there is nothing sordid, nothing warped, nothing to indicate the deterioration of a civilization of too many wheels, the stunting and abnormal, one sided devel opment due to factory or city life. In considering the other figure reluctant reluc-tant gallantry must give place to veracity, verac-ity, and it must be admitted that the man Is the finer figure of the two. The face of the average college girl, like that of the other figure, is a "composite" one, and the best that can be said of it is that it is depressingly solemn in expression. The type is 6 feet 5 inches tall. She weighs 115 pounds Her breadth of 6houlder is 17 inches. The girth of her natural chest is 80.5 inches. She can expand ex-pand that about two inches. Her girth of hips is 85.4 inches. Her girth of head is 21.5 inches. Her stretch of arms is 3.5 inches. As the college girl is too sensible to constrict her waist to any considerable degree, so she is wise enough to give her feet plenty of freedom. The type'6 foot is 9 J inches long. Her waist is 24 inches in circumference. Her legs are not well developed. Her girth of calf is only 18J inches. In truth the figure has more fragility than that of her counterpart, without a corresponding gain in grace. . It is when he finishes the results of his observations as to temperament, however, how-ever, that Dr. Sargent approaches most closely to dangerous ground, for he de-v de-v clares . that the typical college girl stu- v dent is distinctly nervo-bilious. This I seems like a maliciously devised scheme . on the part of the doctor to forestall crit- icism from the girls. The shrewd, scientific expert has doubtless conceived the notion of putting put-ting their very criticisms in evidence to prove his sweeping assertion.. He will scarcely succeed, however, in propitiating propitiat-ing the ladies by the deprecatory remark re-mark that his lay figure is not that of an 80 or 90 per cent girl; that it represents merely 50 per cent of their good points, and is halfway from the best to the worst. Philadelphia Record. |
