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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale average age has been 21 11-12 years, the Harvard average 21 1-2 years; the Yale average weight 167 1-2 pounds, the Harvard average, 167 3-4 pounds; the Yale average height, 5 ft. 10 7-8 inches, the Harvard average 5 ft. 10 1-4 inches...
...last twelve years the average age, weight and height between the crews is remarkably near the same figure...
...interesting to note that neither age, weight or height have any decided advantage, the oldest crews having won six times out of twelve, the lightest seven times out of twelve, and the shortest six times out of ten. It would seem that the qualities that bring success are not to be mathematically computed...
...essential similarity of the average Yale and Harvard oarsmen, despite differences between individual Yale and Harvard crews of three and a half years of age, of eighteen pounds in weight and of three inches in height, is also noticeable...
...Yale Sheffield Scientific School appeared last Saturday. The following facts are gathered from its pages. Of the ninety-three men who entered the freshman class seventy-four graduated. The average age of the men in the class is twenty-one years, three months and eleven days. The average height is five feet, nine and one-seventh inches, and the weight one hundred and fifty and one-half pounds. The average expenditure per year for each man has been $970. There are forty-two members in the class. Half the class smoke, thirty-four drink and all but one play cards...