Records of the Department of Physical Education : anthropometric measurements of Harvard students, 1860-1920

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Records of the Department of Physical Education : anthropometric measurements of Harvard students, 1860-1920

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These data cards contain the anthropometric measurements of thousands of Harvard students who were subject for research directed by Dudley Allen Sargent.

ca. 20,500 cards (34 boxes)

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385392

Harvard University Archives.

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Dudley Allen Sargent 's zeal for the study of perfection launched a data collection process at Harvard that extended to every entering freshman for almost half a century. In his effort to find research subjects for "anthropometric measurements," measurements of the human body, he enlisted the help of the Dept. of Physical Education. Incoming Harvard students from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century were carefully measured. Parallel data on each student's physical condi...

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