The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-10
HE Country Day School has
been hailed as a new depart
ment in education; rather


ment In education; rather
as may It be looked upon as a
harking back to the days of the little
red school house, when the vacant lot
close by, the adjacent brooks and
woods, claimed all a boys free time
out of school; when the schoolmaster
was the personal friend, the play fell
how. the companion of the groups that
daily started of for after school d.
Versions, now called extra cur
-ficuium activities 1t Is the organ
lied effort for the normal In a boys
life, combining the education of the
home, the family church. the class
room and the playing fields into his
daily round; preparing him not alone
for college entrance and professional
study but for home making Of his
own some day, for taking his part in
the family church, for bringing to the
political and social questions of his
community the understanding and In
terest Of one brought up among them.
The Country Day School as such Is
a growth Of the last twenty years, and
already, beginning with the Gilman
School of Baltimore, over twenty-five
recognized schools of this type have
sprung Into prominence in or rather
out OF the largest communities. from
Boston to Kansas City. These
schools belong of necessity to the
large cities and come in response to
the fair demand Of the city boy for
something to do and somewhere to do
n IN the afternoon, for real place to
plhy his games as they should be
played, which should be the right Of
every boy and is very important
element in his development into the
ablest and finest type of man; in re-
Spouse also to his demand for proper
instruction In the subjects required
for entrance to the college Of his
choice, for helpful comradeship and
Inspiring leadership among boys and
masters, and finally for the Joy and
the discipline Of home life during his
formative years
All this the Country Day School
aims to do, to give the boy everything
the best boarding schools have been
able to give during the day and then
TO send the boy home for the normal
associations of family life. Daily we
are coming to recognize more fully
the Importance of this family life.
You do not teach a boy how to make
Hshome by keeping him away from
one during his most impressionable
years; to be interested and helpful
IN local problems by sending him out
OF the way of hearing about them
to feel responsibility for his home
church, joy in Its service, by bring,
ing him up in another religious at
mosphere; to resist the inevitable
temptations of college life by giving
him the almost monastic life Of the
boarding school until he goes tC
college.
The Country Day School has ex
listed long enough to show quite con
sclusively that its supervised study
hours, It's closer association with care
fnlly chosen masters, can fit the boys
10 compare favorably with boys from
;boariing schools in the college en-
trance examinations; that it's organ
lied play. its carefully trained teams
It's intelligent physical supervision
have done much for the health anC
spirit of the boys; that the greater
personal responsibility developed II
the boys who have learned what t.
avoid in city life prepares them Il
meet the distractions and the tempta
lions of college life much more wisely
than does the secluded life of tn,
rural boarding school. Finally, tina
the closer touch with civic and church
AFFAIRS gives the boy broader OUTLOOK
and tends to make him more ready t
take his place and to do his part II
his native city on his return from
college.
Cooperation is one of the basic prin
ciples of the times and has a mos
Important part in the work of tn
Country Day School. The school, tn
home, and the boy must work togethe
In sympathy If the school is to meas
Ore up to It's ideals. The school mus
not simply hear the boys prepared
recitatlons or work out corrective dis
cipline for the unprepared-it mus
teach the subjects, supervise tn
study and show the non-studious DO.
how. 1t must foster athletics as
means to an end, and that end tn
building of healthy, husky bodies ant
manly, forceful. self-reliant charaC
tiers. not the winning of games ant
trophies. 1t must also develop ideal
of service and leadership for whlcl
the community will look to those boy
later and must not look in vain
Finally, II must keep before Its boy
the practical application OF thos
ideals. the points Of contact for tn
service. without which the highes
ideals. the most altruistic service be
come quixotlc. sentimental and In