Composite sculptures of 1890s American college students
From one of Hooton's books. The caption reads: 'Dr. Dudley A. Sargent's composite figures of college students of the "gay nineties." Made from average measurements. The present generation of American students is considerably taller and more slender.'
I forget which book this is from. Probably Up From the Apes, in which case "present generation" refers to the 1940s.
There were women in the college's back then?
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These statues were presented in the anthropology/ethnology section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The exhibit text stated that they were based on a median of all measurements of 20,000 "prepatory" and university students taken shortly before the fair was originally supposed to open, in late 1892. Presumably, the vast majority of those sampled were white, because ethnologists of that era would not wish to "confuse an issue".
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