Identifier: playmovementitss00curt (find matches)
Title: The play movement and its significance
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Curtis, Henry S. (Henry Stoddard), b. 1870
Subjects: Play Playgrounds
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ilda training that might be very nearly ideal. Walking Trips When we consider the number of children who go out underthe Wandervogel, and the school journeys, and the variousprivate organizations for promoting walking trips that thereare in Germany, it seems likely that the amount of recrea-tion and physical exercise in the open air which is offeredthrough these trips is very nearly equal to that offered bythe playgrounds themselves. We have not thus far pro-moted walking in this country to such an extent as has beendone abroad, but recently through the boy scouts and campfire girls, and many private schools and playground depart-ments in the different cities, we are developing a real interestin walking such as we have not had before. Such trips intothe environs of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia have beenplanned with much care, and have been a regular feature ofthe athletic life of these cities for several years. There arealso many smaller cities where walking trips are taken under
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Play at the School 53 the direction of the play authorities, but in nearly all cases,these are for only one day or at the most two days duration,as we have not thus far undertaken any of the long trips suchas are so common abroad. The one organization which has done this on a rather largescale is the Columbia Park Boys Club of San Francisco.Under the leadership of Mr. Peixotto the boys from this clubhave gone on walks of from three to six hundred miles eachsummer. Fifty-two boys walked from San Francisco tothe San Diego Exposition, six hundred and fifteen miles,during the summer of 1915. They were followed by wagonswhich contained camping and cooking utensils and thenecessary blankets, though in California during the summertents are not strictly necessary. The boys are mostly boysfrom poor families, and they are accustomed to paying theirway on these trips by holding matched baseball and basketball games, or giving amateur dramatics, and entertainmentsin the cities through which they

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