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Synopsis
Excerpt from The Most Perfect Boy, Physically, in a fifteen-Year Stuyvesant High School (New York City) Pupil, Who Began, at 12: With a Poorly-Developed, flabby Physique, With a Score of About 78, and Attained 150 in Three Years
The tables of measurements contained in this hand-book are based on the anthropological fact that there is more than one normal type of human physique. This, of course, does not agree with the popular theory that there is only one normal type of build, and that this is the general average of all builds. On this theory we have tables of average weights for children of different heights and ages, with the emphasized statement that those Who range in weight less than 7 per-cent below the general average for their age and height must be sub-normal in some manner, possessing malnutrition, perhaps, or other ill or defect.
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