The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-06-06

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GET busy Immediately, And moi one
q Lnese pesky little Insects VIII have n
one half the reverence for y6tit mar !
you had for their ancestor on April I
solved the problem, 1t is DeI,eyed,
and that Is the plan Of founding
country day schools for city boys .,
And girls, TOO, are going to be In
Guided among those. who share the
benefits Of this movement ThessI
country day schools are described bs.
Or. William Starr Myers, assist pt
professor of history and poiitiess
Princeton University. IN p1Biica-
tion just issued for free distribution
by the ppIatfed States Bureauaot rEdti,
eaton ~ II. ,..5. i iSS ,s,, ~
/. Up ito fifteen years ago the only
tive possible things for the city
ffamily, jif ajheaNhy outdoor tltfeE was:
desired for the children, was TO live,
at a country home SIX months Of the.
year and each day send the children
in town to school, or else break all.
home ties for a large part of the.
year by sending the boys and girls,
away to a. boarding. school. Al
group OF men and women Of intelli4
gence and enterprise in Baltimore
had the vision Of better plan and
the faith to act upon it. and the Gil
man Country School for Boys, a new
type of educational institution Is the,
lFesult ,., FS35g 49,
THE educational history Of the,
country, says, the Bureau, Of Eduea.
tion'sl monograph when viewed from
the standpoint Of this..tatest deyel-
sqpment,y shows that as the cities
i!gradually built up,uthe American
boy's opportunities. for healtbtul
Irecreation gradually Edlminshed
There werei fewer vacant lots for
young America toaplay9upon, and in
lstillslater days even cable and cleo.
EtriGs cars were apowerless to make.
continually accessible the open places
necessary TOR exercise and fresh air.
So much time was taken MP in going
ITO and from thecsathlet.c fieids,"
which Thresholds must now provide,
that9 little chance was left for tie
Igooda long. hard play that is so nee
essagy4forNthe proper development
of a'healthy boy The gymnasium
was a new advantage, it is true, but
atSleast it merely gave opportunity
for exercise Indoors or in bad
weather, which was more like work
than the healthful outdoor sports
and games and had the added dis
advantage Of making exercise a busi-
ness.
Thoughtful parents were begin
ming to see the necessity OF finding
some way to keep their boys off the
streets, and perhaps away from the
bad associates of the hours out Of
school. and the only way open to
them was that affordedFbysthe board
schools sprInging up all over the
country, many of them under church
direction or influence. Thus, amolg
THE more favorably situated classes,
ito send the boys away to! large
boarding school Of this type became
1.-THE established custom.
There is no question, according to
the United States Bureau Of Bdu-
cations publication, that large
boarding school offers great educa-
Itional advantages to those boys
whose fathers can afford to pay for
them. 'fBut it has one serious
drawback" says Or. Myers. at
cuts of the boy from home when u
Ior Is years old, the very age of all
others when he needs the influences
centering around home and family,
} which are of greater importance than
any other in the life of a normal,
weN-trained, healthy child. The in
fuence Of a teacher is tremendous,
'fbut at best it can only supplement
land add to that of a conscientious
father and tender mother" Real
izing this difficulty, the country
school was founded, and It bids fair
to make on the educational history
Of our time a still greater mark than
it has already made in the compar-
; atlvely short time it has been in ex-