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...several of her latest poems at the Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. This lecture, which will be held under the auspices of the Divisions of the Fine Arts and Music and the 47 Workshop, is in aid of the Winsor School Playground Fund...
...clock this evening in the Harvard Club of Boston, Mr. E. P. Jones will give a lecture illustrated by lantern slides and motion pictures on "New England as a Playground-Winter and Summer." Mr. Jones, who is the official photographer for the Boston and Maine Railroad, will show the possibilities of New England as the vacation spot of America. Among others he will show motion pictures of Winter Carnivals at Gorham, N. H., winter sports at Dartmouth College as well as a new film of the White Mountains...
...Pinon, a town between Soissons and Laon, will be combined all the artistic features that make French villages beautiful and all the sanitary improvements which make American cities healthful. The town will have a community house and a playground attached to the school where the French children can play the Rugby they have learned from the English soldiers. Pinon will also have an adequate system of waterworks, a public bath house and laundry, and a dispensary and emergency hospital. These features will practically all be entirely new to French towns...
...Schedule of instruction has been thoroughly revised this year by Mr. Geer. Each morning of the six-week period will be given over to theory courses and each afternoon to graded classwork in the schoolroom and playground games, athletic practice and coaching, gymnastics and other exercises...
American universities are certainly not what G. K. Chesterton calls English universities: "The playground of the rich"; practically every man in the colleges of this country intends to work for his living. That is as it should be; but there in little sanity in working for what cannot be enjoyed; and comfort is not the half of enjoyment. A comfortable living in much to be desired; but there is no reason why it should entirely crowd out social, intellectual, educational service, the "levelling up" of the nation. College men are most fitted to be the motive forces for better conditions...