Wholesome Citizens And Spare Time (1918) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I HIGH LIGHTS OF THE STUDY As we sum up the evidence secured in these interviews, certain summary facts will be found to stand out in the recreational careers of our wholesome citizens: 1. We may conclude that the evidence shows that spare-time activities, either directly or indirectly, have had a vital influence upon the development of these people. These activities have not been the only ones which wrought the marvel of wholesome personality, but that they have entered in as a factor is shown beyond the shadow of a doubt. They have been more uniformly present than any other factor, though they have not claimed interest in the same forms, nor elicited equal intensity of interest or participation, nor occupied the same relative places in favor throughout the lives of these individuals. The physically active, individualized pursuits of youth have tended to be replaced gradually by the more sedentary and conventionalized interests traditionally ascribed to maturer years; but throughout, even at both extremes, the spare-time occupations of this group have been of a healthy, lively, purposeful sort, molding through a participative activity the social and intellectual as well as the physical life of the individual. They have been activities that release from work-a-day routine, and as these people have come into maturity of years and established place in the community, their activities have tended increasingly to build up and to enrich social and socializing relationships for them. 2. An outstanding fact that this study has revealed is the absence of activities or contacts usually associated with viciousness. As already indicated, most of the spare-tune activities here reported are colorless morally in themselves; their wholesome- ness or viciousness depends to a de...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	John Lewis Gillin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-95650-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN:	1-120-95650-1
Barcode:	9781120956507

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