Show freshmen at 5 feet 10 tower over 1917 draftees troy N Y Poly tech me nic institute institutes s average freshman is 5 feet 10 inches tall weighs 1 52 pounds and is 18 1812 years old a sur vey at the engineering college showed the average was deter mined from applications for ad mission received from virtually every state in the union the tall est applicant was 6 feet 6 inches and the shortest 5 feet recalling that the average height of the first million men drafted in the world war was 5 feet TVs inches school officials pointed out that the men drafted were measured in their bare feet while the prospective stu dents wore shoes allowing an inch for the thickness of the heels and soles of the shoes the college youth remains an inch and a half taller than the national average in 1917 |