. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. e athletic teams. Principals wereurged to limit their competitors to thesewho had been bona fide members of thecenters, and thus to keep out any who hadnot a clear right to enter. These effortsresulted in excluding some expert ath-letes who would not luive been desirablecom])etitors, and served to divide theprizes among the representatives ofmany different centers. Suitable trophiesfor the center obtaining the highestnumber of points, and for those winningthe senior and
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. e athletic teams. Principals wereurged to limit their competitors to thesewho had been bona fide members of thecenters, and thus to keep out any who hadnot a clear right to enter. These effortsresulted in excluding some expert ath-letes who would not luive been desirablecom])etitors, and served to divide theprizes among the representatives ofmany different centers. Suitable trophiesfor the center obtaining the highestnumber of points, and for those winningthe senior and junior relay races, wereoffered l)y prominent citizens. Thegame anil library rooms should bemade the most attractive in the the past winter efforts at dc((.r:il-ing the rooms have been started, andvery fair success has been obtained. The teachers endeavor to persuadethose who attend to learn new games,and not to be content with the suni)lercard games, such as Authors an(lBattles, in which there Jire elements ofchance. :Much valuable information ha>come to the players from the geographical 16 NEW BOSTON. EMBLEM OF ATHLETIC MEETS and historical games provided. Whilecheckers continues to be the most populargame, many of the club members havelearned chess. In one of the centers thechess team won a tournament from ahigh school, and also played a drawseries with a chess team from the NewYork University. Every center is provided with fiftybooks from the New York Public Library,including fiction, history, travel, poetryand general literature. Current maga-zines are also kept on file. During the past season, dancing classeswere successfully organized in a numberof the centers. These classes met oncea week in the centers for girls and attendance of the young men waslimited largely to those who were ac-credited club members of some neighbor-ing mens center. The woman principalin charge of the center in which the mixeddancing class met, became the final judgeas
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