Appendix VII
Taken from Maclaren’s “Physical Education.” Showing the result of one year’s continuous practice.
The following Table shows in another form the Results of the System; not by Brief Courses or Periods of Voluntary Attendance, but by a Year’s Steady Practice from Birthday to Birthday, with two Articled Pupils, the Younger being 16, the Elder 20:
| MEASUREMENTS, ETC. | INCREASE. | |||||||||||||
| Case. | Date. | Age. | Height. | Weight. | Chest. | Forearm. | Upper arm. | Height. | Weight. | Chest. | Forearm. | Upper arm. | ||
| Yrs. | Ft. | In. | St. | Lbs. | In. | In. | In. | In. | Lbs. | In. | In. | In. | ||
| A. | 1861, Oct. 17. | 16 | 5 | 23/4 | 7 | 10 | 31 | 8 | 91/4 | |||||
| 1862, Apr. 17. | ″ | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 341/2 | 10 | 111/4 | 11/4 | 16 | 31/2 | 2 | 2 | |
| ″ Oct. 17. | 17 | 5 | 43/4 | 9 | 3 | 36 | 10 | 111/4 | 3/4 | 5 | 11/2 | ″ | ″ | |
| Subsequent Measurement. | ||||||||||||||
| 1863, Mar. 23. | 18 | 5 | 63/8 | 10 | 10 | 371/2 | 111/4 | 13 | 15/8 | 21 | 11/2 | 11/4 | 13/4 | |
| B. | 1862, Feb. 24. | 20 | 5 | 81/2 | 10 | 13 | 34 | 111/4 | 113/4 | |||||
| ″ Aug. 24. | ″ | 5 | 87/8 | 11 | 4 | 381/2 | 12 | 123/4 | 3/8 | 5 | 41/2 | 3/4 | 1 | |
| 1862, Feb. 24. | 21 | ″ | 11 | 71/2 | 40 | 121/2 | 131/4 | ″ | 31/2 | 11/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | ||
| Thus in the year’s work the increase was— | ||||||||||||||
| Height. | Weight. | Chest. | Forearm. | Upper arm. | ||||||||||
| In. | Lbs. | In. | In. | In. | ||||||||||
| With the younger | 2 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| With the elder | 3/8 | 81/2 | 6 | 11/4 | 11/2 | |||||||||