The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . a Californiaorphanage. Here was story-telling after office-hours on Wed-nesdays; playing games on Saturday afternoons and nature-study field excursions on Sundays. Conducting these classes was like taking acourse in laboratorywork — they testedout the possibilitiesof education throughplay, but also playas one natural wayof imparting knowl-e d g e, particularlyuseful in inculcatingmoral ideas. Meantime, thework grew. It be-came too heavy forone person alreadybusy with officeduties, so a univer-sity graduate who had studied in simi-lar specialized courses was
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . a Californiaorphanage. Here was story-telling after office-hours on Wed-nesdays; playing games on Saturday afternoons and nature-study field excursions on Sundays. Conducting these classes was like taking acourse in laboratorywork — they testedout the possibilitiesof education throughplay, but also playas one natural wayof imparting knowl-e d g e, particularlyuseful in inculcatingmoral ideas. Meantime, thework grew. It be-came too heavy forone person alreadybusy with officeduties, so a univer-sity graduate who had studied in simi-lar specialized courses was and study of her effortsonly deepened the conviction as to thevalue of such work. Among the chil-dren on the playground were juvenilecourt cases, including abnormal andsub-normal children. Thus there wasa wide variety of material for obser-vation. When the orphanage work seemedrunning by its own momentum, therearose the question of interesting themunicipality to undertake play-grounds, as others elsewhere had. A FLAY BARN-YARD sacred SWINGIts support is of the Bo-tree, madesacred by the great Buddhas teach-ings beneath its shade
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