...specific forms of activity, •which are embodied in certain plays and games. You have often heard that "a boy without a playground is father to the man without a job," for it is nature's method of making a man, and play is a necessity to a child and not a mere luxury....

..."horse-play" of boys on the street corners was a direct path to the loafing of the men on the grocery steps. "The boy without a playground is father to the man without a job" is the wise saying of the president of the National Playground Association. But in 1826 Froebel declared...

...which should not lightly be neglected. One of the foremost philosophers of recreation has said that " the boy without a playground is father to the man without a job; and the boy with a bad playground is apt to be father to the man with a job that would better be left...

...philanthropists to seek to improve the conditions under which the play of our children shall be carried on. The boy without a playground is father to the man without a job ; and the boy with a bad playground is apt to be father to a man with a job that had better have been...

...which should not lightly be neglected. One of the foremost philosophers of recreation has said that "the boy without a playground is father to the man without a job ; and the boy with a bad playground is apt to be father to the man with a job that had better be left...

...which should not lightly be neglected. One of the foremost philosophers of recreation has said that " the boy without .a playground is father to the man without a job ; and the boy with a bad playground is apt to be father to the man with a job that would better be...

...leaves of all later life." Some one has expressed the same thought somewhat less elegantly, saying : " The boy without a play-ground is father to the man without a job." Without play life is stunted, and few of its possibilities are realized. Great men, as Yoder has shown,...

...Dickens justly pronounced a crime. Mr. Joseph Lee, who has made a study of the subject, remarks that "the boy without a playground is father to the man without a job." A little five-year-old invalid of the tenement Piay said : "I don't want to get dead and be an anCorruption...

...ethical progress, then it is true, as Joseph Lee has said — but even in a much larger sense — that " the boy without a playground is father to the man without a job"; and by "job" I mean a life enthusiasm, and so work. Freedom does not mean absence of control or absence...

...from control by others. This is a primary reason why children should play, and, in this connection, " the boy without a playground is father to the man without a job," — that is, using " job " in the sense of a life enthusiasm, .or work. But there must be a kind of...