Whether women of college age, young adults in the late teens and in the twenties, are continuing to grow during the four year period of their college course is a moot question. The two measurements that have been used commonly for the investigation of this problem are height and weight. Survey studies have been made in several regions of the United States, and each has yielded much the same result as the others. Bowles's1 report on measurements of Wellesley College women. Gordon's2 on Smith College students and Diehl's3 comprehensive survey of women of Cornell University, Leland Stanford University, Michigan State Normal College, University of Minnesota, North Carolina College for Women, Smith College, University of Wisconsin and University of Texas have all indicated no consistent relationship between advance in age and measurements for stature and weight. On the other hand, Carter4 in his study of old Americans,