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Show UO COUNTRY BOYS EXCSLL. Students from the countrv districts show up better physically than those from the cities, according to a compilation com-pilation made by men In the department depart-ment of history and political sclonco at Cornell university. From the measurements of 1723 students who entered in 1908 and 1009 tho statistics wore obtained. Thero were 991 men from the country and 732 city bred students. For tho purposes of the . tables every place with a population ,' k of 25,000 was considered a city The " 'alt statistics show that the country bred ') students were half an inch taller, , jp, thrco and a half pounds heavier and it had slightly greater chost expansions. 'M.V Ithaca Special In New York Sun. ' cui |