PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS: Standing height 56.2 inches Sitting height 29.4 inches Weight 80.5 pounds Head circumference 21.5 inches Right grip 18, 18, 16 Left grip 19, 17, 15 _December 22, 1925_ AGE: 11 years 6 months SCHOOL GRADE: Eighth TEST RECORD: Passed all tests on Superior Adult level, Stanford-Binet. Took two forms of Army Alpha. Form 7, 162 points, and on Form 5, 168 points. PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS: _Norm_ Standing height 58.1 inches 56.7 inches Sitting height 29.4 inches Weight 88.8 pounds 75.5 pounds Head circumference 21.7 inches _November 18, 1926_ AGE: 12 years 5 months TEST RECORD: Score on Army Alpha, 175 points PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS: _Norm_ Standing height 60.0 inches 57.8 inches (in shoes) Sitting height 30.0 inches Weight (without coat) 93.0 pounds 84.6 pounds _January 12, 1929_ AGE: 14 years 7 months SCHOOL GRADE: Third Year High School TEST RECORD: Score on Army Alpha, 194 points PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS: _Norm_ Standing height 64.2 inches 62.2 inches Sitting height 32.5 inches Weight (clothed) 118 pounds 98.9 pounds (stripped) 114 pounds _October, 1929, to February, 1930_ SCHOOL GRADES: English Literature C+ English Composition C German B- Geometry B+ Trigonometry B+ Science B+ _January and June, 1931_ AGE: 16 years 6 months to 17 years SCHOOL GRADE: Now a freshman in college TEST RECORD: Was given CAVD test, Levels M, N, O, P, Q, at two different sittings--one in January, the other in June. Score 422 points. (According to available information 400 points is twelfth-grade college entrance score in high-type colleges, while 421 points is the upper quartile score of candidates for advanced degrees in Teachers College, Columbia University, the median being 415.) _January 20, 1932_ At the age of 17 years 7 months, in the third year of college, he scored 204 points on Army Alpha, Form 8, a score made only by the top one per cent of college juniors, seniors, and graduate students. _November 23, 1939_ Notice was received of A's marriage. [1] Demonstration test before a class of teachers. [2] The score of 95 points on Army Alpha, Form 7, on February 22, 1923, corresponds to a mental level of 16 years, 0 months by Stanford-Binet. This (if translatable into IQ) would result in an IQ of 184. [3] Measurements were made without clothing, by Dr. Herman Schwartz. [4] The Burgess books had been read often before. CHAPTER FIVE CHILD B