Play and Recreation for the Open CountryGinn, 1914 - Počet stran: 265 |
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Strana 126 - As fuel is brought to the fire, So I purpose to bring My strength, My ambition, My heart's desire, My joy, And my sorrow To the fire Of humankind, For I will tend As my fathers have tended, And my fathers' fathers Since time began, The fire that is called The love of man for man, The love of man for God.
Strana 259 - The greatest problem of our rural communities is how to make country life attractive enough so that farm people will find it satisfying and be content to remain on the farm. This book is an attempt to show some ways in which the adventure and romance and social co-operation which the country had in the days of the pioneer, but which it has so largely lost, can be brought back to country life. It contains many helpful suggestions for the organization of recreation in the rural home, in the rural school,...
Strana 259 - A book rich in suggestions for teachers, parents, and all students of rural life. It shows some definite ways in which the adventure and romance and social cooperation which the country had in the days of the pioneer, but which it has so largely lost, can be brought back to country life. It contains much helpful and easily accessible information for the organization of recreation in the rural home, in the rural school, and in the rural community. AMONG COUNTRY SCHOOLS By OJ KERN, University of California...
Strana 78 - For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
Strana 66 - Executive order, administered by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Strana 125 - It is my desire to become a Camp Fire Girl and to obey the law of the Camp Fire, which is to Seek beauty, Give service, Pursue knowledge, Be trustworthy, Hold on to health, Glorify work, Be happy. This law of the Camp Fire, I will strive to follow.
Strana 47 - If we are to have better rural recreation, we must first of all have better agriculture. Better technical farming and a more carefully organized farm plan, will give the farmer the time that he needs for other interests. In the future he will be able to command at least one day a week, aside from Sunday, for reading, study, vacation and other forms of re-creation.
Strana 63 - They came in large groups, often by schools, bedecked with their school colors, waving school banners, giving their school yells, and singing their school songs. It was the gala day for the county public schools, and even early in the morning the holiday spirit was in the air. "By ten o'clock between 3000 and 4000 people had assembled at the School Fair exhibit hall. The entrance to this hall was then thrown open, and this vast throng of people surged in. Their eyes fell upon a unique exhibit —...
Strana 49 - ... your side until you can knock it into an open space on the other side. Sometimes the ball will be passed 'back and forth over the net twenty times without . its ever once touching the floor or ground, — something which rarely happens in tennis, which is a similar game without the team combinations. The net is seven feet and a half high, and the ball is often twenty feet in the air. It is the best corrective we have for the round and stooped shoulders and the flat chest, so often engendered...