Again, from the Royal Academy at Woolwich, Professor Maclaren took twenty-one youths whose average age was about eighteen, and in the brief period of four months and a half obtained an average advance of 1-3/4 pounds in weight, of 2-1/2 inches in chest, and of 1 inch on the upper arm; while one fellow, nineteen, and slender at that, gained 8 pounds in weight, and 5-1/4 inches about the chest! Think what a difference that would make in the chest of any man, and a difference all in the right direction at that! But the most satisfactory statistics offered were those of two articled pupils, one sixteen, the other twenty. In exactly one year's work the younger grew from 5 feet 2-3/4 inches in height to 5 feet 4-3/4 inches. He weighed 108 pounds on his sixteenth birthday; on his seventeenth, 129! At the start his chest girthed 31 inches; twelve months later, just 36! His forearm went up from 8 inches to 10 inches, and his upper arm from 9-1/4 inches to 11-1/4. While the older gained but three-eighths of an inch in height, his weight went up from 153 pounds to 161-1/2, his forearm from 11-1/4 inches to 12-1/2--an unusually large forearm for any man--and his upper arm from 11-3/4 inches to 13-1/4, while his chest actually made the astonishing stride of from 34 inches to 40. Not yet a large arm, save below the elbow, not yet a great chest; five inches smaller, for instance, than Daniel Webster's, but greatly ahead of what they were a year earlier. There is no mystery about the Maclaren method. Others might do it, perhaps not as well as he, for Maclaren's has been a very exceptional experience; still, well enough. Look what Sargent did with a Bowdoin student of nineteen, as shown in Appendix IV. In four hours' work a week this student's upper arm went up 1-1/2 inches--just the same amount as did Maclaren's student of twenty; his chest went up from 36-1/2 inches to 40, while that of Maclaren's man went from 34 to 40; but it should be borne in mind that 36-1/2 is harder to add 6 inches to in this kind of work than 34. In height the Englishman made three-eighths of an inch in the year, while the American made a whole inch. But the latter also led easily in another direction, and a very important one too; for, while the Briton, though but a year older, and of almost exactly the same height, gained but 8-1/2 pounds in the year, the American made 15! His case is further valuable in that it shows, beside this advance above the waist, splendid increase in girth of hips, thigh, and calf as well.