ENTERS ITS FORTY-SECOND YEAR AND VOLUME, SEPT., 1921 THE MAGAZINE "EDUCATION" $4.00 a Year ERANK HERBERT PALMER, A. M., Editor Canadian Postage 2c; Foreign Postage 4c per Copy The Oldest High-class_Monthly_Educational Magazine in the United States. Monthly, Except July and August. Volume Title Page and Table of Contents for Year in June Issue. On our subscription list we have the names of leading educators in every state in the United States; also a select clientele in each of the following lands: South America, Mexico, New Zealand, New South Wales, Australia, England, Belgium, France, Sweden, Switzerland, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Korea, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Newfoundland, the Maritime Provinces, and all parts of Canada. Did you see the splendid article on: PLAY AND EDUCATION in Education for February, 1921, contributed by Rolland Merritt Shreves, Ph.D., of the Department of Education, State Normal School, Kearney, Neb.? It contains a fine bibliography of the subiect-among other valuable features. We have about forty copies left, 50c, postpaid. EDUCATION FOR MAY will contain in full the notable addresses made last month at the ninth annual conference on Rural Education, at the State Normal School, Worcester, Mass. The following were the speakers and their topics: PLAY AND THE ULTIMATES, by Joseph Lee, President Playground Association of America. WHAT CAN THE OUT-OF-DOORS DO FOR OUR CHILDREN? by Dr. Charles A. Eastman. RURAL LEADERSHIP, WHAT SHALL IT BE IN THE FUTURE? Hon. Payson Smith, State Commissioner of Education for Mass. BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS AS AN EDUCATIONAL ASSET, by George F. E. Story, of the Worcester County Farm Bureau. CO-OPERATION OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE SCHOOL, by Arthur W. Gilbert, State Commissioner of Agriculture for Mass. RURAL AGENCIES AND RURAL TEACHERS, by Irene W. Landers, Home Editor of "Farm and Home." THE GRANGE METHOD AND ITS RESULTS, by Charles M. Gardner, State Grange Master for Mass. THE STORY-TELLER AND RURAL COMMUNITY LIFE, by Sarah A. Marble, Director of Kindergarten Training, (Worcester). Every Educational Leader in the United States should read and ponder these addresses. SENT, POSTPAID, FOR 50 CTS. THE PALMER COMPANY, EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS 120 BOYLSTON ST., BOSTON, MASS. SAMPLE TESTIMONIALS "Education is appreciated everywhere."- Geo E. Walk, I ccturer on Education N. Y. University. "A magazine which we much enjoy."-Sister Mary Evangela, St Xavier's Convent, Chicago, Ill. "Of greatest value to all who are trying to formulate an educational theory."President Faunce, Brown Univerity, R. I. "The finest sample of educational journalism on the American market today."Dr. William H. Thaler, St. Louis, Mo. "I have prized its visits as one prizes the coming of a friend."-Betty A. Dutton, Cleveland, Ohio. For Women Frances Musselman, Principal Established 16 yra. 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Please mention THE PLAYGROUND when writing to advertisers Published monthly at Cooperstown, New York Playground and Recreation Association of 1 Madison Avenue, New York City Membership Any person contributing five dollars or more shall be a member of the Association for the ensuing year America's First Community Center, by C. M. Goethe Community Service Treasurer Appointed Ambassador to France Cardinal Gibbons Fort Wayne's Most Dynamic Movement-The Community Council. An International Awakening to the Value of Play for Play's Sake, by Art in Every Home A Move to Conserve the Industrial Arts of Foreign Born Peoples Suggestions for the Leisure Time of Young Children, by Louise M. Welles 106 107 109 113 117 118 119 120 121 127 New Rational Athletics for Boys and Girls, by Frederick J. Reiley 131 135 Eighteen Months' Work of the Recreation Department of Detroit, Michi gan 136 Check Your Babies 139 Community Service at Whiting, Indiana, as Described by the Community Organizer Athletic Meet and Play Festival for the Rural Schools of Kent County, 163 A Community Dinner at Bellingham, Washington 164 Suggestions for Increasing Attendance at Swimming Pools, by Samuel K. 165 Construction and Maintenance of Municipal Golf Courses III, by A. A. 168 176 Entered as second-class matter August 8, 1916, at the Post Office at Cooperstown, New York, under act of March 1, 1879. Copyright, 1921, by the Playground and Recreation Association of America |