The Greeley tribune., 1911-03-02
<.xnY $. CURTIS NOW ,,,rv
',S1 ',,scruR,sc IN THIS CITY

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Hssry Hsssry,oIosIst i, and play ground ground
a Ie,snsu Sa.sn his busy week yes yes,
y WIN sneaking morning. AFTER. alter.
sas, spea ea,nr, in each instance
,,ss nd es'Dl by large audiences. ~.
i eree,s' e,,s smoke first at the Con
.susl cu,1'' church hrr in the morning. no. 1,as.
,,!ens' a'ss, being tla "play and the For, y.
nS's,,' e, Habits uIpns and Character. I'm IN
on 0l .an he spoke at the Metn,
,ftsInuSh' ."h on THE Playground
enu'ln rducation.." In the even
s0'a, anase at the Presbyterian
ns 'p' 1.-THE Significance OF the
srouud &C. M Movement" ,,,,,. .,,,.,.a
t.
- - will address the IN meeting eams,sia %,
Commercial CO me club at the ca"f'e'o
morning he will ad.
snG',ys ,se high school students ana
:. 'aS evening at 1880 will appea,
s ss tse' the city council and b board
.,,s,,on, - ,rI At $50 he will ap-
ea,a 1T the First Baptist church rel
!, the auspices of the soc'a' S''-
club. ~. curt,s vester-
NJ morning was as follows;
- ''u NAV is social conduct and is
:. moral or immoral as any
" conduct Is ...
,ometimes think that we make
a,en moral by teaching them
!, virtue, but to know what ID
, and to do what is right are
.,.nt things. The child may get
IDEAS of immortality from the
IaIngs Of his parents or the sun
school. but he is going to prac-
Ms morality and form his hao-
mostly in his play, and character
aly crystalized conduct.
some ways all play tends to-
morality. In the first place.
tends to strengthen the Will.
child In the school and the
is under the control OF his
ats. be is doing what he Is told,
Il not executing his own choices
lhr as he does these things be-
he must. He is not a free
Il and his conduct Is neither
hi or Immoral, but simply nom
hi. It has very little to do with
Development OF the strength OF
or character. The possible
iees in the school room are very
!, and he may study or not study.
; that is about all. But the num-
Of choices In the playground are
Iumerable and these choices must
executed instantly. A boy who
! 4 base ball in the field, will al
h have four or FIVE choices ~
what he will do with the ball.
must make his decision and act
y II within a fraction of q second
II he Is ever to be successful
~ This age has had too great
= between knowing and doing:
M al lour cities where our
ua have been national dis
1t is not that we have not
entood that We were being mis-
1ned, but that we have not lived
70 our knowledge and the same
oe all the way along the line.
execution has been far behind
we have known to be right
best.
Ponn Stuart Mill after his gradua-
from Oxford at the age of fifteen
mat he found himself without
eelect in life; there was nothing
reared for; he had no motives
Incentives; he had never played
enlld Now behind the vigor OF
WI lies vigor OF desire. A per-
VINO does not care much, who
no object before him that ap-
large and alluring does not
very hard, and 1t is in the
VI 'he child that he develops
'u''ness of emotional life, that
.'n! OF desire, which furnishes
uv'lVe for all subsequent action.
=. e'e III something in the
=, strengthening Of the muscles
.a ~ lends to strengthen the will.
1, '.e NC. muscles are the organs of the
In1as nua all Its behests are executed
..,s su ,nem, and tlabbishness OF
s' .ans, Is 5 very often expressive of
,l,s"' uaai naobishness of volltion.
|, 4a.' W natural conditions of the
|, ,,,o l., .ne child in the city, there
IA ,o. sOHa'uons In this play which
MI "s.a S".,, immortality. 1t is a
,es SoFld o0 without laws or ordin-
! t,' VI Judges or iuries or penal
aSr,l 'sr mls-deeds. 1t is always to
tass th,'n'ase of the big and strong
,e s ,dr,. away things rom the weak
! ,ra,a saalt world could not carrv ~."M, on
i. -Isiss enrs,. for one week under M
,rla ,naa,'ions ~ N, in which the child
ouDd a 'ae y, Introduction of the n,av-
. s'eat new force int Drought