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...have a nice time and learning is very little forced on the men who go there. This Oxford idea, you know is a great deal better than having a lot of priggish science thrust on one. But after all, Oxford isn't a university; it is simply the playground for the English gentry...
Among other features which will be offered are special curricula for the principals of secondary schools, superintendents and other administrative officers, as well as playground workers and specialists in various fields of distinction. During each half year approximately 20 courses will be given in the department. As the courses offered in the Summer School are practically parallel to those in the Department of Education, a program consisting of these studies may be counted to obtain the degree of Master of Education by teachers holding positions during the remainder of the year...
...following article, Joseph Lee '83, a leader in the playground movement and the War Camp Community Service in New England, of which he was president during the war, states his views on "The Need for Social Service Work...
Joseph Lee '83, the foremost expert in the country on playground recreation work, John D. Adams, one of the oldest settlement workers in Boston, and Walter I. Trumbull '15 will be the principal speakers at the informal dinner to be given by the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House on Monday evening at 6.15 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. The dinner, to which all men in the University who are interested in Social Service work are invited, is for the purpose of developing cooperation between the workers in Harvard and those in the Boston settlement...
...special feature of the summer school this year will be a course for directors of playgrounds, including the philosophy of play, the purposes of the playground, organization and equipment, administration, gymnastics, dances and various kinds of games...