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

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

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These cards comprise a portion of the total research data collected under the auspices of the Harvard University Dept. of Physical Education to support Sargent's research. The research subjects from which data on these cards were collected were students of Harvard College and some of Harvard's graduate schools. Each measurement card notes detailed measurements of the subject's body and lists some genealogical and family health information as well. This information often includes the subject's birth date and place, subject's father's occupation, and both the nationalities and the causes of death of the subject's parents.

ca. 20,500 cards (34 boxes)

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8187360

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard University. Dept. of Physical Education.

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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 condition was colle...

Sargent, Dudley Allen, 1849-1924

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Sargent taught physical training at Harvard and was director of Hemenway Gymnasium from 1879 to 1919. From the description of Papers of Dudley Allen Sargent, 1879-1925 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972875 Dudley Allen Sargent (1849-1924) was an early innovator in physical education. His long association with Harvard included his years as Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard from 1879 to 1919. During this time, he also establis...