...specific forms of activity, •which are embodied in certain plays and games. You have often heard that "a boy without a playground is father to the man without a job," for it is nature's method of making a man, and play is a necessity to a child and not a mere luxury....

..."horse-play" of boys on the street corners was a direct path to the loafing of the men on the grocery steps. "The boy without a playground is father to the man without a job" is the wise saying of the president of the National Playground Association. But in 1826 Froebel declared...

...influence which should not lightly be neglected. One of the foremost philosophers of recreation has said that " the boy without a playground is father to the...the boy with a bad playground is apt to be father to the man with a job that would better be left undone." Conversely it may not be too much to claim that...

...philanthropists to seek to improve the conditions under which the play of our children shall be carried on. The boy without a playground is father to the man...with a job that had better have been left undone. New England towns founded during the seventeenth century usually had commons, i7th cenoriginally used...

...epigram which, in Mr. Riis's opinion, entitles him to a place among the real sages of the day, to wit: "The boy without a playground is father to the man...a job that had better have been left undone." The plan of the 'book, which is clearly apparent to the careful reader, includes two main divisions, the...

...influence which should not lightly be neglected. One of the foremost philosophers of recreation has said that "the boy without a playground is father to the...the boy with a bad playground is apt to be father to the man with a job that had better be left undone." Conversely it may not 'be too much to claim that...

...influence which should not lightly be neglected. One of the foremost philosophers of recreation has said that " the boy without .a playground is father to...the boy with a bad playground is apt to be father to the man with a job that would better be left undone." Conversely it may not be too much to claim that...

...and ethical progress, then it is true, as Joseph Lee has said — but even in a much larger sense — that " the boy without a playground is father to the man without a job"; and by "job" I mean a life enthusiasm, and so work. Freedom does not mean absence of control or absence...

...which Dickens justly pronounced a crime. Mr. Joseph Lee, who has made a study of the subject, remarks that "the boy without a playground is father to the man without a job." A little five-year-old invalid of the tenement Ptay said : "I don't want to get dead and be an anCorruption...

...leaves of all later life." Some one has expressed the same thought somewhat less elegantly, saying : " The boy without a play-ground is father to the man without a job." Without play life is stunted, and few of its possibilities are realized. Great men, as Yoder has shown,...