concerning the condition of the freshmen of this College, the
following statistics have been appended re freshmen tested in-1941l.
The index presented is the so- ~called "physical Fitness Index", or
"P.F.I.," which represents the percentage that the total strength
of the student is of the usually accepted peace-time norm. The
score 100 is "normal" in this test. In the first column are given
the class intervals in which the index was tabulated. The second
column represents the frequencies, or numbers of students, in each
interval. The third column represents these frequencies in terms
of the percentages of the whole number of cases. For military
service, the norm for a student of average size should, according
to our evidence, be approximately 115. Thex cefore in columns four and
five, we have interpreted all acores below 100 and 115 in terms of
wheat might be called "Strength Age"; that is, if freshmen are

considered as being eighteen years of age and if we use the norms for

that age, these "Strength Ages," which correspond to each interval,
may be tuken to mean that the boys in that interval have a strength
which would correspond to that of a normal boy of that size (of the
age indicated). For instance, if 100 is taken as The normal, a boy
with a Physicel Fitness Index of 80 would be one having a atrength
that mirht be normal for a twelve-year-old boy of that size. All
indices above the normal should be interpreted simply in terris of
the percentages that they are above the norm.

The crarh on the separate sheet represents the distribution
of such scores in our freshmen group. The average norm and the
"“deslrable" norm are indicated, together with our College average,
which is 105 for this froup..