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SINGLE STRENGTH STANDARD.
Dr. Sargent Contends that Compari-
sons are now Impossible.
To the Editor of the Yale Alumni
Weekly:
Sir-—In your issue of June 10, 1897,
in an article entitled ‘““Strength Record
Broken,” is is stated that “in a trial
at the Gymnasium Thursday afternoon,
June 3, Charles Chadwick, ’9% succeed-
ed in breaking all previous records in
the college strength test with a re-
markable total of 2,185 kilograms, etc.”’
I have no intention of questioning
the genuineness of Mr. Chadwick’s
remarkable performance or of criticis-
ing the methods of making and com-
puting these strength tests at Yale.
When the attempt is made, however,
to compare the strength records at Yale
with those at Harvard it would seem
to be only fair and just to all parties
concerned to state that at the present
time the strength tests of the two in-
stitutions are not comparable. At Yale
the back and the leg lifts, two of the
principal tests, are made by the aid of
straps or a harness thrown over the
shoulders and arms and around the
hips, while at Harvard the same tests
are made by use of the hands alone.
That there is a vast difference be-
tween the amount that can be lifted
with and without a harnesss may be
inferred from the best known records
of these performances; that of J. W.
Kennedy, who lifted in harness 3,242
pounds at Lynn, Mass., April 2, 1892,
and that of C. G. Jefferson, who lifted
with the hands alone 1,571 1-4 pounds
at Clinton, Mass., December 10, 1890.
At Harvard the grip test is taken with
a dynomometer, which is held in the
hand away from the body and all other
objects, so that the muscles of the
hand and forearm alone may be
brought into action. The best grip
test made on the hand dynomometers
was that of ‘‘Cyclops,’’ the professional
strong man, who made a record of 102
kilos with his right hand.
At the time that he made this test
he also gave the students at Harvard
another exhibition of the strength of his
fingers and hands by breaking a silver
quarter into two pieces.
Now that the students of the colleges
are sO much interested in strength tests
it is very much to be regretted that
some uniform method cannot be adopt-
ed for taking them so that the results
may be comparable. The method-
adopted at Harvard has been in use
for the past seventeen years, and is
the same as that used at Amherst,
Bowdoin, Tufts, Exeter and other in-
stitutions where strength tests are
taken. .
I trust I make no mistake in inferr-
ing that the above facts could not
have been known to the Gymnaisum
authorities at New Haven or to Mr.
Chadwick or Mr. Verrill at the time
their strength records were made and
publicly compared with the record
which Mr. Lovering had made at Har-
vard. D. A. SARGENT’.
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Acquisition to Peabody
Museum.
The Peabody Museum has recently
received an important addition
through the generosity of Mr. E. Hayes
Trowbridge of New Haven, Conn. This
is a section of a mass of meteoric iron
which was found in the Sacramento
Mountains, New Mexico, near the town
of Badger. It probably fell about 20
years since, in 1876. The original mass,
which weighed upward of 520 pounds,
has been sliced and distributed among
the prominent museums and colleges
in this country and abroad. The Yale
Museum is fortunate in obtaining the
largest and finest of these slabs. It
weighs a little more than ten pounds,
and one surface has been etched with
acid so as to bring out the remarkable
crystalline structure characteristic of
most meteorites, distinguishing them at
once from iron of terrestrial origin.
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*Ninety-Six Ivy Replanted.
It has been decided by the Ninety-six
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before Commencement this year. It
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There will be no ceremony and another
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in case of future trouble.
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University Tennis Tournament.
C. P. Dodge, ’99, won the tennis cham-
pionship of the University last week by
defeating R. Hooker, ’99, in the finals, by
the following score: 0-6, 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 8-6.
The winner was given a banner and will
play in the inter-collegiate tournament
next Fall. R. Hooker, ’99, will also play.
Yale’s other representative will be chosen
at a tournament to be played in the Fall.
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