According to the New York Times ("Yale Law School Statistics," May 14, 1894 at 9), Yale Law's class of 1894 was diminutive. The yearbook "Shingle" read, "The average weight of the class is 145 pounds, the average height is five feet 7 inches."
I assume that the Yale class of 1894 was entirely white and male (I haven't got a book in front of me about it). According to the CDC, in 2003-2006 the median (50th-percentile) weight of white male Americans, aged 20-39, was about 186 pounds. (19-year-olds may have been a little heavier.) The difference in height was a little less profound, suggesting that modern young people are bulkier. Median height was 70.4 inches for white males aged 20-39 (19-year-olds were a little closer to 70 inches).
I assume that the Yale class of 1894 was entirely white and male (I haven't got a book in front of me about it). According to the CDC, in 2003-2006 the median (50th-percentile) weight of white male Americans, aged 20-39, was about 186 pounds. (19-year-olds may have been a little heavier.) The difference in height was a little less profound, suggesting that modern young people are bulkier. Median height was 70.4 inches for white males aged 20-39 (19-year-olds were a little closer to 70 inches).
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