Pioneering for Play: Suggestions for Arousing Public Interest in Community Recreation

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Community service, 1921 - Počet stran: 61
 

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Strana 29 - We want to have prosperity, but in order that prosperity and material gain shall not prove a curse instead of a blessing, we must do all we can to promote the refining influences of life — proper means of recreation, wholesome enjoyment, the cultivation of those capabilities for delight and pleasure which alone make the gains of prosperity a blessing to the human soul.
Strana 30 - We may either smother the divine fire of youth or we may feed it. We may either stand stupidly staring as it sinks into a murky fire of crime and flares into the intermittent blaze of folly or we may tend it into a lambent flame with power to make clean and bright our dingy city streets.
Strana 29 - Happy hearts and happy faces, Happy play in grassy places — That was how, in ancient ages, Children grew to kings and sages.
Strana 26 - The sad fact is that in all too many instances the average American business man is actually afraid to let go because he realizes that out of business he should not know what to do. For years he has so excluded all other interests that at fifty or sixty or seventy he finds himself a slave to his business, with positively no inner resources. Retirement from the one thing he does know would naturally leave such a man useless to himself and his family, and his community: worse than useless, as a matter...
Strana 27 - The wrongs against society are committed by our people not in their hours of work, but in their hours of leisure, and the responsibility lies not wholly with the people who perform these unfortunate acts, but with the people who have not been wise enough to...
Strana 43 - This seems to be a very dangerous precipice," remarked the tourist. "I wonder that they have not put up a warning board!" "Yes," answered the guide, "it is dangerous. They kept a warningboard up for two years, but no one fell over, so it was taken down.
Strana 30 - The weakness of our constitutions, both of mind and body, requires that we should be often unbent : and he that will make a good use of any part of his life, must allow a large portion of it to recreation. At least this must not be denied to young people, unless, whilst you with too much haste make them old, you have the displeasure to set them in their graves, or a second childhood, sooner than you could wish.
Strana 26 - He is not fit to live who is not fit to die, and he is not fit to die who shrinks from the joy of life or from the duty of life.
Strana 25 - In dealing with the problem of crime in youth, we shall make progress just in proportion as we appreciate the absurdity of limiting our remedies to the court, the jailer and the hangman. Our plea for public playgrounds is a plea for justice to the boy. We are literally crowding him off the earth. We have no right to deny him his heritage, but that is just what we are doing in nearly every large city in this country, and he is hitting back, and hitting hard, when he does not mean to, while we vaguely...
Strana 30 - Man plays only when he is a human being in the fullest sense of the word, and he has reached full humanity only when he plays.

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