BULLETIN OF THE 
 
 The 
 
 School as a Social Genjter 
 
 By GEORGE H. EDWARDS, Jr. 
 
 ISSUED QUARTERLY 
 BY THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 No. 35 
 
 Part II 
 October, 1913 
 
 COLUMBIA, S. C. 
 
 Second-Class Mail Matter 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, COLUMBIA. S. C. 
 
 Monograph 
 
BULLETIN 
 
 OF THE 
 
 University of South Carolina 
 
 No. 35, Part II 
 
 The School as a Social Cfenter 
 
 By GEORGE H. EDWARDS, Jr. 
 
 A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Univer- 
 sity of South Carolina, in partial fulfilment of the require- 
 ments for the Degree of Master of Arts, and accepted on 
 the recommendation of Josiah Morse. 
 
 1913 
 
 [Reprinted January, 1915] 
 

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PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 The Social Center Movement being still in the experi- 
 mental stage, it is but natural that each "center" should 
 have an individuality of its own, and that there should be, 
 on account of this, some overlapping and confusion of 
 terms used to designate the different features of the work. 
 The "centers," which are called "Evening Recreational 
 Centers" in New York, for example, have practically the 
 same functions and activities as the "Social Center" of 
 Rochester or Cleveland. 
 
 In response to the need for a standardization of terms 
 Mr. C. A. Perry has offered this tentative definition of a 
 social center: "A community may be said to have a school- 
 house social center if one of its school buildings is thrown 
 open to the public on one or more fixed nights in the week 
 for at least twelve weeks a year, for activities of a social, 
 recreational, or civic character regularly directed by one 
 or more trained leaders." 
 
 In the choice and study of this subject, the services of 
 Dr. Josiah Morse, his constant direction and innumerable 
 suggestions, have been of inestimable value to the writer. 
 He is also indebted to Prof. W. K. Tate, State Inspector of 
 Rural Schools, for the table obtained from his question- 
 naire; to the high school officials who aided him in his 
 study of local conditions; to Mr. L. P. Hollis, head of the 
 Welfare Work of the Parker Mills, Greenville; to Prof. 
 Edward J. Ward, of the University of Wisconsin; to Mr. 
 Clarence A. Perry, of the Russell Sage Foundation, and Dr. 
 Josiah Strong, for valuable information and suggestions. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter I. — What the Movement Is. 
 
 1. The Beginning of the Social Center Movement. 
 2. The Activities of the Social Center. 3. The 
 Schoolhouse for Adults. 4. Free Lectures. 5. 
 Music. 6. Civic Clubs. 7. Athletics. 8. Dancing. 
 9. Quiet Games. 10. Sunday Activities. 11. Dra- 
 matic Clubs. 12. Moving Pictures. 13. Voca- 
 tional Activities. 14. The Clubs of the Center. 
 15. Study Rooms. 16. A Place for Meetings. 
 17. The Library. 18. Employment Bureau. , 19. 
 Political Meetings. 20. Polling Places. 21. A 
 Local Health Office. 22. Art Center. 23. Play- 
 grounds. 24. Social Center Organization. 25. 
 The Movement Abroad. 
 
 Chapter II.— Its Relation to Other Social Movements. 
 
 1. "The Little Red Schoolhouse." 2. The Social Cen- 
 ter Abandoned. 3. Something Lacking. 4. Eve- 
 ning and Vacation Schools. 5. Growth of the 
 Public Lecture System. 6. Teacher-Patron Asso- 
 ciations. 7. The Playground Movement. 8. The 
 School the Natural Center. 9. The Agents of the 
 Work. 10. The Ancestor of the Movement. 11. 
 Part of a Greater Series. 
 
 Chapter III. — The Value of the Movement. 
 
 1. Classification of Values. 2. Its Social Value to the 
 City. 3. Solution of the Rural Problem. 4. Bet- 
 ter Government. 5. The Value of Play. 6. Drives 
 Out Idleness. 7. The Rival of the Saloon. 8. 
 Makes Dancing a Wholesome Amusement. 9. 
 Fights Against the Social Evil. 10. Fills Out Our 
 Educational System. 11. Reactionary Efforts. 
 12. "The Keystone of the Arch." 
 
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 Chapter IV. —Its Extent in South Carolina. 
 
 1. A Questionnaire. 2. Uses for Non-school Purposes. 
 3. Why the School Is Used. 4. Why the School 
 Is Not Used. 5. Uses During Vacation Months. 
 6. Direction of the Children's Plays. 7. Benefits 
 of the Wider Use. 8. The Beginnings of the 
 Wider Use. 9. Reading on the Problem. 10. 
 Reports of the County Superintendents of Edu- 
 cation. 11. Summary. 
 
 Chapter V. — What We Should Do in South Carolina. 
 
 1. Adaptation Necessary. 2. Use the School as a Club 
 House. 3. Establish Public Lectures. 4. Promote 
 Political Deliberation and Decision. 5. Make Use 
 of the Playground and Gymnasium. 6. Concen- 
 trate the Library Facilities. 7. Make the School 
 a Public Health Department. 8. Arrange for 
 Moving Pictures. 9. Only a Beginning. 
 
 Bibliography. 
 
CHAPTER 1. 
 
 WHAT THE MOVEMENT IS. 
 
 The Beginning of the Social Center Movement. 
 
 For some years such representative educators and pub- 
 licists as Doctor Eliot, Professor Dewey, Doctor Josiah 
 Strong, and Ossian Lang had pointed out the possibility of 
 making the schoolhouse a social center. Each year these 
 ideas became more definite and positive, and richer in 
 content. In Feburary, 1907, delegates from eleven organ- 
 izations in Rochester, inspired by the excellent work 
 of the Parent-Teacher's Association, came together and 
 formed a School Extension Committee. This committee 
 obtained a municipal appropriation of $5, 000 for the School 
 Extension work and immediately called in Mr. Edward J. 
 Ward, a playground expert, now head of the Social Center 
 work at the University of Wisconsin, who began the work 
 of organizing and focusing about the schoolhouse the social 
 and recreational activities of the community. 
 
 Heretofore as soon as school hours were over the janitor 
 cleaned up, locked the building, put the key in his pocket, 
 and left it there until time to open up for class work the 
 next day. But people have begun to realize that their 
 property is lying idle, while they are in need of the advan- 
 tages which it could so easily afford; also, that during his 
 leisure hours the worker is intitled to pleasure and recrea- 
 tion, without which life for any one is incomplete and 
 barren. As a consequence, this movement begun in 
 Rochester spread rapidly over the country. 
 
 The Activities of the Social Center. 
 
 Now, in many of our school buildings are carried on all 
 the activities which lead to the enrichment of community 
 life either through legitimate amusment or though the 
 dissemination of useful and interesting information. With- 
 out discrimnation as to age, sect or nationality, men, women 
 and children are coming together for the profitable and 
 
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 pleasurable utilization of their leisure moments. The 
 school is being used for gatherings of all sorts— for com- 
 mittee meetings, lodge, guild and society meetings— all 
 find the classroom a quiet and convenient gathering place. 
 These organizations are usually required to state their 
 purpose and are allowed free access to the building when 
 these are approved. Those organizations the least parti- 
 san in purpose or membership are given preference when 
 interests happen to conflict. The aim is to procure the 
 greatest benefit for the greatest possible number of people. 
 Several times a week— in many places, every night— the 
 citizens come together to hear lectures, to discuss civic 
 and political problems, to attend vocal and instrumental 
 concerts, or to see some drama performed by local talent. 
 Public debates and other forensic contests are held; moving 
 pictures are shown in the auditorium; the gymnasiums are 
 open to groups of boys and girls for swimming, basketball, 
 indoor games and exercises, and for dancing. One room 
 is reserved for the playing of quiet games. 
 
 The school playgrounds are used for the children of the 
 neighborhood. The library is open to the public for read- 
 ing or research work, and the basement is sometimes 
 turned over to the election managers for a polling station. 
 It has been suggested that an Employment Bureau be 
 installed in the school building. In many places it is used 
 as the headquarters of the Local Health Department. Its 
 uses are every day increased by the addition of some 
 feature here and another there all over the country. . 
 
 The strength of the movement is shown by the fact that 
 school architecture has had to adapt itself to the new 
 demand. (See Perry on "Social Center Features in New 
 Elementary School Architecture.") The following is a 
 partial description of the plan of a building of new type 
 in Lexington, Ky. : "The basement of the new school, 
 shows a kitchen, a carpenter shop, and a laundry where 
 the children will be taught. * * * The swimming pool 
 and showers are to be opened to the young people and the 
 adults of the community as well as the school children. 
 * * * On the main floor, in addition to the classrooms, 
 there is a large room to be used as kindergarten, gymna- 
 
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 sium and auditorium. In the morning the kindergarten 
 children will occupy it. It is a story and a half high to 
 accommodate the gymnasium apparatus. With the stage 
 at the end and folding chairs it may be converted into an 
 auditorium for stereopticon lectures, musical entertain- 
 ments and plays. * * * The top floor shows four 
 classrooms, and the middle library or reading room where 
 the excellent Library Extension work now being carried 
 on may develop. The flat roof of the combined gymna- 
 sium and the kindergarten room below may be used for an 
 outdoor school." The writer adds: "When the school 
 buildings belonging to the people are used by the people 
 as their club houses, where recreation, physical sctivity 
 and educational amusement may be had by the young in 
 proper environment the saloon evil and other social evils 
 will not cut so large a figure in our civilization. ' ' 
 
 The Schoolhouse for Adults. 
 
 One of the chief aims of the movement is to get a hold 
 on the adults of the community. They should not only 
 be, but should clearly realize that they are sharers of the 
 investment in the public school system. They ought to 
 know the needs and advantages of the building which 
 houses their children for such a large and impressionable 
 part of their lives. They ought to enjoy the educational 
 advantages which can easily be derived from school. In 
 places where the school is not used as a social center, the 
 patrons, as a rule, know almost nothing about its adminis- 
 tration. Some have never even seen the inside of the 
 schoolhouse. Too many boards of trustees, too, feel that 
 their duty is completed when they have secured and paid 
 the teachers, to whom they turn over all the responsibility. 
 But when the patrons attend the "Center" and learn all 
 about the work and the problems of the school, they 
 willingly give it their financial and moral support. 
 
 Free Lectures. 
 
 The feature of the "Center" which is most successful 
 in bringing the adults to the school is the free lecture. 
 
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 In 1888 New York, under the leadership of Dr. Henry 
 Leipsiger, organized the first course of free lectures for 
 adults, which soon became a definite part of her educa- 
 tional system. The popularity of the movement is shown 
 by the fact that in a score of years the aggregate attend- 
 ance of lectures in the New York schools has increased 
 fiftyfold. Over a million people listened to lectures on 
 1,746 different subjects in the season of 1911-12. 
 
 It is worth noting that the lectures have been so care- 
 fully planned into courses as to cover a definite amount of 
 college work. At the close of two such courses examina- 
 tions were given to those who desired them, and the 
 successful ones in the examination were given certificates 
 of credit by Columbia University. Other courses were 
 accompanied with syllabi from the lecturer. It was the 
 general custom of lecturers to answer any perplexing 
 questions and to point out sources of information for a 
 further study of the subject which he presented. 
 
 The average cost of the lectures in New York was $26, 
 but Cleveland, Ohio, has worked out a system by which 
 the expense is almost nothing. An hundred lectures were 
 given one session to an aggregate of thirty thousand 
 people without other cost than that for light, heat and 
 printing. Mrs. Sarah E. Hyre, Chairman of the Com- 
 mittee on Lectures and Social Center Development of the 
 Board of Education in Cleveland, has been the engineer of 
 this work. She and her associates have taken an inventory 
 of the possible lecturers in the city. Men and women in 
 every kind of business have been called upon to contribute 
 their brains and experience to the cause of the free lectures 
 in their city. 
 
 The lecturers vary as widely in their range of subjects 
 as the sources from which they are derived. Sometimes 
 on officeholder will tell how the money of the people is 
 being spent. A college- professor analyzes a play of 
 Shakespeare or gives instruction in some scientific branch. 
 The statesman, the scholar, the practical business man- 
 each brings some message from his realm of experience. 
 After a lecture given in Clevelnad on "How We May 
 
The School as a Social Center. 11 
 
 Fight Tuberculosis," letters were received by the authori- 
 ties telling of various hygienic improvements that had 
 been made as a result of the lecture. 
 
 In New Yord lectures are given in Yiddish, German, 
 Italian and other foreign tongues to large, attentive audi- 
 ences. Many foreigners also attend lectures in English; 
 so, while they are learning the language, they are also 
 getting much valuable information. Here they learn 
 something of our customs as well as the laws of State. 
 
 In some cities the larger children are allowed to attend 
 these lectures, but in New York and other cities they are 
 excluded because they often become restless and disturb 
 those about them. There is, however, a movement to give 
 the children separate lectures which are well illustrated 
 and can be enjoyed by them. 
 
 Berry, in his article "Open Schoolhouse, " tells about a 
 woman of about 40 years who is speaking of her daughter, 
 "I cannot read, and yet the old mother must talk with 
 her daughter of her new life or else she must learn to 
 look elsewhere. With us it is often so in America— our chil- 
 dren grow beyond us because we do not understand of the 
 things they learn at school. When I heard of the lectures I 
 said to myself, 'This is how I will keep along with my girl. ' 
 There is plenty to talk between us now. It is good that 
 in America the school is not alone for the young." In the 
 same article he quotes a bachelor who wrote: "Until you 
 began these lectures I was paying out so much to support 
 the public schools every year and getting no direct benefit. " 
 
 Music. 
 
 It is generally admitted that music is essential for the 
 success of a social center. All the commercialized forms 
 of amusement use it as a drawing card. It was by daily 
 concerts that the Schlitz Beer Gardens of Milwaukee were 
 able to gain the extreme popularity which they enjoyed. 
 But when the schools began to furnish this need, the 
 gardens were soon driven out of business. 
 
 As everybody gathers around the piano at night just 
 before the "center" is closed, and sings, 
 
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 "The Social Center, 
 The place where everybody feels at home 
 
 Forgets th' external, 
 
 Becomes fraternal ; 
 And knows the time for friendliness has come," 
 
 they really join into the spirit which makes the "center" 
 what it is. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Crowthers, when he heard this whole-hearted 
 singing in Rochester, said: "Not since Civil War days have 
 I heard people sing with such spirit. The one justifica- 
 tion of war is that it makes people realize that they have 
 a common bond, a common interest— and they express 
 that feeling in song. You people of Rochester, in the 
 Social Centers, have made the same discovery of a com- 
 mon bond. You prove it by the spirit of your singing. 
 You have done a great thing. You have found a substitute 
 for the only good thing about war, so that war is no longer 
 necessary. ' ' 
 
 This "joining in" on the old familiar airs really arouses 
 more healthy enthusiasm than almost anything else does. 
 And this is not out of reach of any community clubhouse. 
 The following stanza, thus sing in Rochester, describes 
 very tersely the attitude of the people towards the use of 
 school buildings: * * * (from The Schoolhouse on Our 
 Street) : 
 
 "The children on our street do play, street do play; 
 But horses, cars, and trucks are all in the way; 
 So here no childish sports and joys, 
 For all is danger, dirt and noise." 
 So this is how they solved the problem, and gave the 
 children a place to play. 
 
 ' 'There once was a schoolhouse, a great mental tool, 
 Was shut every night in the year, 
 Till the people who hovered around it discovered 
 
 That this was a folly too dear. 
 Said they, If 'tis ours, then we have the powers 
 
 To use it whenever we will. ' 
 So 'twas opened at night, and today with delight 
 You can hear them ashouting their fill." 
 
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 Many of the "centers" have arranged to have very fine 
 music. Usually they do this by developing local talent. 
 Some of the "centers" arrange to give instruction in vocal 
 and instrumental music; in solo, choral and orchestral 
 work. Thus they discover talented persons in their own 
 midst who are glad to furnish their services in return for 
 the training which they receive. 
 
 Richmond, Indiana, although a small manufacturing 
 town, has accomplished some remarkable results in the 
 development of its musical talent. The school provides 
 for the training of an orchestra composed of high school 
 pupils: The members have bought most of the instru- 
 ments for themselves. However, a few of the instru- 
 ments which are especially costly and useless except for 
 orchestral work, the school has provided. This orchestra 
 furnishes the music for all the gatherings in the large 
 auditorium of the school. 
 
 It takes a town with well established musical traditions 
 to support a good orchestra; but besides this one they 
 have developed and maintain the People's Symphony- 
 Orchestra, which meets in the school auditorium and gives 
 regular Sunday afternoon concerts from October until 
 May. They also have a People's Chorus of about 250 
 voices and a high school chorus, each of which adds to the 
 pleasure of the cultured little town. 
 
 They adopted the policy of playing, in the main, what 
 the people wanted. At first calls came for the popular 
 "rag-times", but the people gradually developed a taste 
 for better music. It has been the experience that, when 
 people hear music constantly, their taste is gradually 
 developed and they call for a higher type of music. 
 
 Civic Clubs. 
 
 That Rochester made a distinct contribution to the move- 
 ment in the establishment of its Civic Clubs is easily 
 explainable by their attitude as expressed by Mr. Ward: 
 ' 'The first thing, the fundamental thing in the movement 
 for the wider use of school buildings in the American 
 spirit, is their gratuitous use for the free examination and 
 
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 discussion of public questions. It is no exaggeration to 
 say that in making the schoolhouse the forum of the peo- 
 ple lies the chief hope of perpetuating the republic and of 
 perfecting its institutions." 
 
 Rochester's contribution consists in the new attitude of 
 the school authorities toward the community. The other 
 places— New York, Cleveland, Boston and the rest— failed 
 to distinguish between the relation of the school authori- 
 ties to the children and to the adults. The authorities are 
 paid by the community to govern the children, and are 
 servants of the community. In Rochester they realize 
 (Mr. Ward has always emphasized it) that the building 
 belongs to the people; and that the authorities, including 
 the Board of Education, had no right to tell the people 
 what they should talk about, and what they should not. 
 Dr. Still, in a casual statement, showed the attitude of 
 New York, when he said at a Rochester "Center", "You 
 people should be very grateful to the school board for their 
 goodness to you in allowing you to use these buildings." 
 A citizen in the audience afterwards ventured the opinion 
 that, if New York paid their school board, they would 
 realize their real positions and could not ' 'assume such an 
 utterly ridiculous attitude toward the citizens' use of the 
 buildings." (See E. J. Ward's Social Center, p. 176.) 
 It was the democratic spirit of the organizers which made 
 Rochester's Civic Clubs so markedly successful. The Civic 
 Club is organized for the free discussion of all questions 
 relating to government, local or national. The general 
 popularity of the movement, where it has been tried, 
 shows that folks enjoy coming together to talk and learn 
 about the affairs of the day. They throw aside reserve 
 and really get to know each other. Coming together in 
 the schoolhouse, they give open-minded attention to both 
 sides of the question. This freedom of expression has the 
 effect of making them sympathetic with the views of 
 their opponents. A motto of one club is "We can disagree 
 agreeably." 
 
 The true spirit of the civic club is entirely democratic. 
 There is no sect or nationality of any numerical strength 
 
The School as a Social Center. 15 
 
 in the big cities which has not representatives in most of 
 the civic clubs all over the city. Any citizen is welcome 
 to become a member of a club, irrespective of social posi- 
 tion. The pronounced feeling of brotherhood is evinced 
 by the fact that civic clubs from wealthier portions of the 
 city entertain those from the poorer sections and are 
 entertained in turn by them. 
 
 It is through these clubs that true democracy is real- 
 ized—the actual guiding of the government by the people. 
 The civic club gives every man a chance to express him- 
 self. And when the officeholder knows what the people 
 want, they soon get it. When we have established free 
 discussion of all questions and publicity of proceedings 
 through the work of the civic club, then, and not before 
 then, can we talk of a pure democracy. 
 
 In a Boston school ' 'center, ' ' eighteen young me* have 
 organized a club, which they call the Junior City Council. 
 They modeled their proceedings on those of the city coun- 
 cil. They introduce measures for the government of the 
 city and discuss them on their merit. They study local 
 conditions and collect facts which will lead them to an 
 intelligent understanding of these conditions. They are 
 preparing themselves for most valuable citizenship. 
 
 It is encouraging to know that this most valuable feature 
 of the social center work in the schools is in the reach of 
 every school neighborhood. To establish some of the 
 other features, money and equipment is essential. But 
 the present equipment of any school is ample to begin this 
 feature with. And there is no reason for any objection to 
 the use of the school building. In the whole movement 
 no instance has been mentioned where the school property 
 was injured. In many cases the use lead to the realiza- 
 tion of school needs and to steps for supplying these 
 needs. These meetings often result in efforts to better 
 conditions for the community— most often for the children. 
 It was the civic spirit of the "Neighborhood" Club in 
 Public School No. 63, Manhattan, N. Y., which spurred 
 the adults of the neighborhood to demand better public 
 protection for their children at the street crossings and a 
 
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 thorough investigation of the moving picture shows of the 
 neighborhood, and led them to co-operate with a settle- 
 ment of the district in cleaning up their streets and adding 
 to the civic beauty of the section. 
 
 Athletics. 
 
 The scene of greatest activity is the gymnasium. There 
 groups of men and boys are happily engaged in all sorts of 
 healthful exercise and recreation. It i^ not an uncommon 
 thing to find a fireman and a policeman in a wrestling 
 match or to see a father and son in the same game. In a 
 game of volley ball held at Prescott, Wis. , in the summer 
 of 1911, three generations played. One of the young men 
 in choosing sides called to his father, "Come on, dad, I 
 want you on my side." (See Jack Remington's "Every- 
 body in Prescott.") In their various activities men as old 
 as sixty and seventy often participated. 
 
 Basketball is the favorite game of the "center." With 
 its excellent opportunities for physical development and 
 the additional advantages derived from a game, it affords 
 a most pleasant and heathful means of recreation. Indoor 
 baseball, handball, quoit throwing, dodgeball— each have 
 a place. Races of all sorts are invented. Relays, potato 
 races and Indian Club races afford amusing variations. 
 In a New York "center," for example, the director made 
 the boys lie on their backs and start from that position. 
 Boxing and wrestling are also taught. 
 
 Swimming is given a conspicuous place in physical cul- 
 ture. Cincinnati has installed swimming pools in her 
 public schools, in Denver and Philadelphia, the pupils are 
 being taught to swim and Columbia University requires 
 all its students to swim. The movement seems to be 
 spreading, and it may not be long before swimming is 
 given a definite place in every course of physical training. 
 
 Time and again it has been demonstrated that physical 
 prowess appeals to boys more than anything else, and the 
 gymnasium affords a means of 'getting hold of boys other- 
 wise unapproachable. One night, several years ago in a 
 certain section of New York, a "tough," the terror of the 
 
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 neighborhood, entered the social center, swearing that he 
 was going to "clean it out." He was immediately inter- 
 ested in the work of a "gym" class, and was humiliated 
 when he found them his superior in the work. He came 
 nightly, and soon became one of the best athletes of the 
 center. The director, hearing that he had been the leader 
 of a gang, asked him to bring them and form a basketball 
 team. He did bring the boys, and a street gang was 
 transformed into a good basketball team. 
 
 When the boys enter one of New York's centers at 
 seven-thirty they are allowed a few minutes of free play. 
 Then the athletic director puts them through a thorough 
 drill of "setting up" exercise. They aim to give all round 
 development to all the fellows. Their object is not to 
 produce stars or train professional acrobats, but to give 
 each boy a strong proficient body. 
 
 This is clearly shown by inter-class competitions where 
 class and not individual records are counted. In the 
 standing jump, for example, the record of each member 
 of the class is taken and the average goes as the class 
 record. It was a rule that every member of the class had 
 to participate to make the record valid. But it was found 
 that some children were kept out of the contest by ab- 
 sence from school, or on account of sickness. So at 
 present eighty per cent, of the class must take part in 
 order to establish a record. This means that the strong 
 and active members are going to be interested in the 
 weaker ones and will help them develop. Just this has 
 been done. The best athletes of the class take it upon 
 themselves to coach the poorer ones and thus raise their 
 standard. This splendid plan puts the emphasis on the 
 man that really needs the work the most. 
 
 Dancing. 
 
 For the girls and women, also, the gymnasium has its 
 attraction. They fence, play basketball and other games 
 played by men. But the greater part of their "gym" 
 work consists in rhythmic exercises and dancing. The 
 dance most often used in the school "centers" is the 
 
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 Folk Dance. The girls arrange themselves in parallel 
 rows and present the old national dances in time with the 
 appropriate music. As the pianist strikes up the old 
 Norwegian strain, "Reap the Flax," they move in perfect 
 rhythm, going through the motions of harvesting the crop. 
 Or perhaps it is the national dance of Poland, Italy, or 
 Russia, or the quick movement of the Hungarian dance. 
 Their bright faces gleam with the pleasure of the exer- 
 cise and self -consciousness is instantly thrown aside in the 
 desire for perfect team-work. 
 
 Clarence A. Perry, in "The Community Used School," 
 makes this assertion: "Folk dancing, especially, respre- 
 sents the maximum of benefit with the minimum of 
 expense. Exhilarating, sociable, imparting grace, exer- 
 cising all the muscles, quickening the important bodily 
 functions, requiring small space per person, and economi- 
 cal of teaching material— its introduction has changed 
 the aspect of life for thousands of city girls and it may be 
 preparing heritages of rhythm and color for unborn gen- 
 erations." 
 
 In Newark, N. J., New York, and a few other cities, 
 folk dancing is taught the girls after school hours. They 
 use the classrooms and, frequently, the flat roofs of the 
 school. In Pensacola, Fla. , they have placed a piano on a 
 platform under .some splendid trees, and allow folk danc- 
 ing at recess. This was undertaken for the purpose of 
 breaking up quarreling and clannishness among the pupils, 
 and has proven a splendid success. Oregon, however, bars 
 the use of the school for folk dancing, as well as the com- 
 mon dances, by the law that "No dancing shall be per- 
 mitted in any schoolroom." (For recent State legislation 
 affecting the social and civic use of school buildings see 
 "A Survey of School Social Centers." by C. A. Perry.) 
 
 After preliminary precautions a new step was taken at 
 Evening Recreation Center, No. 188, of New York. On 
 several occasions the girls had invited the boys to their 
 Social Center for concerts, games, and social functions. 
 One Wednesday evening they were allowed to ask their 
 boy-friends to a dance. Only boys who were recommend- 
 ed by the principal of their "centers" as being especially 
 
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 gentlemanly were admitted. The experiment was such a 
 success that the boys and girls were allowed to form a 
 dancing class. To join, a boy had to be well recommend- 
 ed and agreed upon by the five girls and five boys who 
 acted as an executive committee. The weekly fee of 
 of five cents apiece, paid by girls and boys alike, went to 
 cover the expense of music, waxing the floor, etc. There 
 was a little money left over which they used in one or two 
 pleasant outings. The Opportunity Clubs of Boston, also, 
 held mixed dances and counted them in every way a suc- 
 cess. 
 
 This is quite an innovation and caution is necessary. 
 But it has been taken up successfully by at least six of 
 the New York Centers. Dr. Edward Stitt, when he saw 
 150 young folks enjoying themselves on the school floor 
 and only 30 in a notorious commercialized hall across the 
 way, said that he believed he saw the solution for the im- 
 moral dancing in the activities of the social center. In 
 his article, "New York Social Centers," C. S. Childs 
 points out that progress has been made in the suppressing 
 of objectionable dancing. He says, "The neighbors on the 
 floor committee learned that one of the sure ways to stim- 
 ulate improper dancing is to crowd the dance floor; and, 
 vice versa, that the first rule in controlling a public dance 
 is to restrict the number on the floor to such an extent 
 that each couple can always be seen and easily followed 
 and will have plenty of room for turning." 
 
 Quiet Games. 
 
 In some quiet portion of the center, often in the read- 
 ing-room, provision is made for playing table games. 
 Authors, geographical names, and historical events are 
 some of the card games. Parchesi, krokinole, dominoes, 
 chess — these are a few of the games which prove so ab- 
 sorbingly interesting to old and young alike. 
 
 A Boston center has established a "Games" Club, for 
 the girls, which is in reality a "normal training class." 
 (See the Report of the East Boston Center.) The authori- 
 ties wished to point their girls to other professions than 
 
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 bookkeeping and stenography. So the "Games" Club is 
 teaching those girls how to tell the old folk-stories and 
 sing old songs to children as well as how to conduct all 
 sorts of games. They are learning to weave mats and 
 baskets, do brass work, and other things that will help 
 them in amusing children. The enthusiasm for the work 
 has alreadys induced several girls to look towards it as a 
 profession. One of the girls has organized a "Games" 
 Club of her own. 
 
 Sunday Activities. 
 
 Miss Julia Richmond, District Superintendent of the 
 City Schools of New York, suggested that we must face 
 this question, "Shall we advocate the 'Open School' on 
 Sundays?" This question seems to present but little diffi- 
 culty, however. In Rochester, the ministers themselves 
 asked that the school-houses be opened on Sunday after- 
 noons. The schoolhouses are now opened every Sunday 
 in Rochester, in New York, and in other cities. Quiet 
 games and concerts furnish recreation not at all out of 
 harmony with the spirit of the day. Lectures and con- 
 certs are given in the New York centers. They have 
 found it wise to take a voluntary offering, which keeps 
 people from feeling impoverished. At Long Beach, Cali- 
 fornia, two Sunday schools are held in school buildings. 
 
 Dramatic Clubs. 
 
 Most of the large centers have dramatic clubs. In the 
 East Boston center they have two; one for the boys, and 
 one for the girls. In training the voice, cultivating good 
 breathing, and many other unsuspected ways, the partici- 
 pants derived considerable benefit. Each club gave a 
 creditable performance last year, and is anticipating 
 much future benefit. 
 
 Moving Pictures. 
 
 Moving pictures have been called the "drama" of the 
 center. They appeal to the emotions, as does the the 
 drama. Through them thousands of people can for five 
 
The School as a Social Center. 21 
 
 cents see Sara Bernhardt act. It is estimated that over four 
 million people all over the country daily visit the "picture 
 shows." A large per cent, of these are children. There 
 is only one institution which reaches more people than 
 the picture show— the school. The moving pictures 
 necessarily exert a tremendous influence, and the in- 
 stitution is as yet in its infancy. It holds out oppor- 
 tunity for the most vivid and pleasurable teaching of 
 geography, history, science, and other subjects. Through 
 "Pathes' Weekly" people all over the country saw Wil- 
 son's Inauguration much better than many who went to 
 Washington. However, this institution is at present 
 largely commercialized. 
 
 Yet some school centers have already installed machines 
 and shown pictures to large, enthusiastic audiences. Mil- 
 waukee has shown pictures in ten of her school "centers." 
 The moving pictures will undoubtedly have an increasing- 
 ly important place in the program of the "center." 
 
 At present, however, it is difficult to secure satisfactory 
 films at a reasonable price. The film "exchanges" insist 
 on charging the school the same prices that they charge 
 the commercialized theatres, whereas the film is used five 
 or six times a day by the theatres and only once or twrice 
 by the school. It is also difficult to get the privilege of 
 selection of films. To make this a successful activity of 
 the school co-operation on the part of the schools will be 
 necessary. Either an educational exchange, which would 
 without doubt be a financial success, must be established; 
 or the schools will have to adopt a system of buying films 
 and lending them in exchange for others. It is probable 
 that both methods will soon be common. 
 
 Vocational Activities. 
 
 At several centers it is arranged to bring in a few of 
 the useful arts along with the pleasures. In the East 
 Boston Center two clubs meet and sew for a little over an 
 hour, when they put away their work and spend the rest 
 of the evening in dancing or social activities of some sort. 
 Oakland, California, opens some of her schools on Satur- 
 
22 University of South Carolina Bulletin. 
 
 day for manual training and domestic science. In Phila- 
 delphia a sewing club was made possible through the en- 
 terprise of a young man who lent several sewing machines 
 in order to advertise his machine. The boys are learning 
 brass work, wood carving, and chair caning, while the 
 girls have domestic science, crocheting, doll dressing, etc. 
 In Milwaukee the boys are also taught to make baskets 
 and mend shoes. Thus they not only learn useful work, 
 but learn to enjoy it. 
 
 The Clubs of the Center. 
 
 The New York Centers have probably succeeded better 
 than the others in the organization of young folks' clubs. 
 Whenever a boy (or a girl) enters a center, he (or she) 
 is urged to join a club. When first organized, each club 
 was distinctly athletic, literary, civic, dramatic, or what 
 not. But the aim of the authorities has been to make them 
 uniform. All these clubs are now scheduled for certain 
 periods of work in the gymnasium and in the playing of 
 quiet games. Each is required to have at least one busi- 
 ness meeting a week, and to know something of hygiene, 
 civics, and American history. Most of them have regular 
 periods for literary work and debates, as well. Two lit- 
 erary clubs have begun publishing weekly papers, which 
 are filled with the news and jokes of their center. 
 
 Study Rooms. 
 
 Some school children do miserably poor work, merely 
 because they have no suitable place to study. They may 
 have to work where the family is talking; or be interrupt- 
 ed as soon as they get settled, and sent on some trifling 
 errand. For these, most centers have provided study 
 rooms. After they begin home work (usually in the 
 fourth grade), they are allowed to bring their books to 
 the study room, where a sympathetic teacher will help 
 them learn how to study. Perry quotes a New York 
 principal as saying, "We have an average of about sixty- 
 
The School as a Social Center. 23 
 
 five boys every evening and some of them have told me 
 that since coming here they have received A's on their 
 reports for the first time in their lives." 
 
 A Place for Meetings. 
 
 The school is being very properly used in many places 
 as the headquarters for organizations helpful to the com- 
 munity. In the rural districts Farmers' Institutes, Corn 
 and Hog Clubs, Granges, Boys' Corn Clubs and Girls' 
 Tomato Clubs use the schoolhouses. Farmers come miles 
 because they realize that the lectures they hear on farm- 
 ing are worth dollars to them. Charles W. Holman, in 
 his address, "Social Center Work in the Southwest," 
 quotes a farmer near Sherman, Texas, as saying, "I have 
 learned things by attending these meetings that mean 
 money to me. That is one of the reasons why lny wife 
 and I come twelve miles every time you folks meet to- 
 gether." 
 
 The organization of Boy Scouts and the sister organiza- 
 tion of Camp Fire Girls find the schoolhouse the natural 
 place for headquarters. The Parent-teacher Association, 
 Mothers' Clubs, and Associations for school improvement, 
 all find welcome at the school "center." 
 
 The Library. 
 
 The Library has been called the "people's college." 
 As a matter of fact a college course consists of a few of 
 the best books on certain subjects studied with special 
 care. A boy should get the habit of reading so that he 
 can carry on his education after he leaves school or 
 college. The adults need the library as well as do the 
 pupils. Everyone should know how and where to look up 
 what he needs. It is surprising, however, how few peo- 
 ple understand the value of an index or table of contents, 
 and how few can use Poole's Index or the Reader's Guide. 
 In the summer the city children need some legitimate 
 pastime. This is the best time to increase the sphere of 
 one's reading knowledge and to fix in mind the things 
 taught in school. 
 
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 Grand Rapids has found that the most convenient place 
 for the library is the schoolhouse. This puts it where the 
 children can use it and at the same time nearer to the 
 parents. Branches of the local Public Library have been 
 placed in the basement of five school buildings, and little 
 messengers daily take books home to their parents. 
 
 Rochester has no municipal library and has well shown 
 the feasibility of supplying the city from the schools. 
 Milwaukee established her public library as a ' 'Branch of 
 the Public School System," and has two branch libraries. 
 St. Louis, Detroit, Buffalo, New York, and other cities 
 have branch libraries at the "centers." The plans of the 
 Rusk School for Houston, Texas— the city which spent 
 $500,000 in 1911 for socializing her schools— and those of 
 the Guilford School of Cincinnati, provide large rooms for 
 libraries. Col. Frank P. Holland, Editor of the Farm and 
 Ranch, realizing that the first step in establishing a social 
 center is to secure some library facilities, has made it pos- 
 sible for the rural schools all over the State of Texas to 
 start libraries. 
 
 Employment Bureau. 
 
 The schoolhouse, after supplying the need for vocational 
 education, has wisely undertaken vocational guidance for 
 its pupils. Boston has a vocational adviser for every school. 
 Harvard has recognized the demand for trained men in this 
 work, and in 1911 the Harvard Summer School offered a 
 course on vocational guidance. The next step is to help 
 the pupils obtain suitable work and get them started right 
 in life. This step has been taken in several places, and it 
 is usually found that the Librarian can handle the bureau 
 very effectively. Doctor Commons, of the Wisconsin In- 
 dustrial Commission has suggested a State Bureau with a 
 local branch in each town. A branch of the local branch 
 is to have headquarters at the school. Thus even the 
 rural communities will be benefited and the man in the 
 country or town would know within a few days of any 
 positions open in the State. In any system to bring men 
 and positions together, the schoolhouse offers a splendid 
 place for a branch office. 
 
The School as a Social Center. 25 
 
 Political Meetings. 
 
 In 1911 the Cleveland Federation of Labor held meetings 
 in the schoolhouses of the city to discuss the initiative and 
 referendum. They had some trouble getting permission; 
 but it was finally agreed that upon the signed request of 
 twelve voters and the payment of $3.00 to defray extra 
 expenses, the buildings could be obtained. Jersey City 
 has used the schoolhouse for partisan political meetings 
 with no disorder or injury to the building. LaFolette, 
 Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and others, spoke at these meet- 
 ings. For two years Wisconsin has required the school 
 authorities to allow the buildings to be used, without cost 
 or inconvenience to the users, for political meetings; and 
 no case of misuse has been reported. In Chicago the 
 school auditoriums have been used. At the first meeting 
 the speeches were preceded by music. Men and women 
 were there to enjoy speeches worthy of statesmen. 
 Struck by the contrast with former meetings, an old man 
 exclaimed, "I wonder why they didn't think of holding 
 meetings in the schoolhouse before. It is certainly better 
 than going to some back room of a saloon. Why you can 
 take the Missus with you in a fine place like this." (See 
 a "Survey of School Social Centers, 1911-12, by C. A. 
 Perry. ) 
 
 Polling Places. 
 
 In Berkley and Long Beach, California; Grand Rapids, 
 Michigan; Salt Lake City, Utah ; Madison, Wisconsin; 
 Boston and other places, the schools are also used as 
 polling places. Milwaukee and Worcester use the schools 
 for polling places as well as centers of political delibera- 
 tion. It is worth mentioning that in 1911, when women, 
 voted for the first time in Los Angeles, the use of polling 
 stations was begun in about thirty schools. Suffragists 
 and anti suffragists unite in the opinion that, whether the 
 women vote or not, the polls should be decent for them to 
 attend, or they are not fit for the men. The ballot-box of 
 democracy deserves better housing than a saloon, the 
 back part of a store, or a temporary street booth. It is 
 
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 stated that in the five boroughs of Greater New York the 
 expense for the rental of polling places for use during the 
 general election, the four registration days, and one 
 primary day in 1911, amounted to $102,565. (See "A 
 Survey of School Social Centers," by C. A. Perry.) This 
 gives some idea of the tremendous expenses of a 
 campaign. Los Angeles expects to save $50,000 yearly by 
 the use of the schools for this purpose. 
 
 The principals of the schools are most enthusiastic in 
 their endorsement of the plan. They have in no case 
 been inconvenienced in the regular school work by the use 
 of the basement or some room as a polling station; and 
 report that the dreaded soiling of the buildings has proven 
 largely imaginary, and is greatly offset by the advantages 
 of the polling place to the school. This use dignifies the 
 building in the eyes of the pupils and the community. 
 The children may see the voting and receive inspiration in 
 their civics from the addition to its reality. The signifi- 
 cance of the school is also brought home to the voter 
 himself, and he becomes a better supporter of the institu- 
 tion. It has been suggested that the principal of the 
 school act as clerk for the electorate, receiving just com- 
 pensation for his labor. He would attend to the 
 preliminary arrangement of the programs and the 
 publicity of the affair. Thus is would be recognized that 
 a public servant of all the people would be free from 
 political prejudice or injustice. 
 
 Local Health Office. 
 
 The Health Officer has been looked upon as a ' 'sanitary 
 policeman" Now, however, we are beginning to look 
 upon his possibilities as a teacher of hygiene. New York, 
 Cleveland, and other cities have had physicians and 
 dentists to give lectures and demonstrations in the value 
 of obeying the laws of health. Instruction has been given 
 in the use of food, clothing, and the proper housing con- 
 ditions. Women have been taught how to bathe, 
 nourish, and care for, their babies. Series of lectures 
 have been given in Rochester in the fight for hygienic 
 conditions. 
 
The School as a Social Center. 27 
 
 Most of the up-to-date schools give the pupils health 
 examinations. Slight defects are remedies which could 
 not later be removed. Boys and girls are saved weeks of 
 suffering and loss by the removal of adenoids or relief to 
 a tooth. In February, 1910, Rochester established a 
 dental department in public school No. 14, which is doing 
 much good. The children, when taught lessons of bodily 
 care and hygiene, spread this among their parents ; and 
 some of the benefit is extended to them. Along with the 
 inspection comes the need of a dispensary of medicines 
 for the children. The parents are allowed the privileges 
 also of the local health office. 
 
 Art Center. 
 
 Through the leadership of Mrs. M. F. Johnson, the 
 progressive little town of Richmond, Indiana, has won the 
 title, "The Art Center of America." For sixteen years 
 the Richmond Art Association has existed, with its head- 
 quarters in the schoolhouse. Mrs. Johnson originated the 
 idea of giving the Richmond people a chance to enjoy the 
 color taste as well as the taste for music. Consequently, 
 an exhibition was a arranged in the school and paintings 
 and etchings were loaned by the citizens. This "Demo- 
 cratic Art Movement" developed ; and pictures were 
 secured from without. Now the association owns many 
 fine paintings, and artists from all parts of the country 
 send their work for the yearly exhibition. Small prizes 
 for the best local paintings and for the best State work 
 have brought forth an unexpected number of very credit- 
 able paintings and have given a considerable stimulus to 
 the artists of the State. 
 
 Soon after the association was formed, it was decided 
 that they needed the backing of the municipal authorities. 
 In order to secure this they asked the council for a 
 hundred dollars. The council realized the value of the 
 movement, but felt that to make such an appropria- 
 tion would be in violation of the law. But the city 
 attorney so convincingly portrayed to them what it would 
 mean to the town that after an hour's discussion, they 
 
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 passed a measure over the mayor's veto and appropriated 
 money from the city treasury. The school completed in 
 1911 had three room especially designed for an art gallery. 
 A course of extension lectures on Art^was given in the 
 the Richmond School by Mrs. C. K. Chase, who is a 
 student of Art of most of the European countries. These 
 efforts have been repaid in the benefit to the children 
 alone. The school pupils were allowed to show their 
 work at the yearly exhibitions. Though the first efforts 
 were, of course, crude, the school exhibitions contain 
 much creditable work now. 
 
 Playgrounds. 
 
 All over the country schools are awakening to the value 
 of the playground. Milwaukee has an Association for 
 Public Play and Social Education. Newark, New Jersey ; 
 Pensacola, Florida ; and other cities, have organized play 
 for the pupils at recess and after school hours. In 
 Newark some handicrafts are taught on the playground. 
 The schools which have organized play usually open the 
 grounds during school hours for the use of the children of 
 the neighborhood that they may experience the supreme 
 joy of the sand box without the danger from the traffic of 
 the street. The growing tendency is to co-operate with 
 the community in the use of all school property, and the 
 playground is in many places serving a very real need. 
 
 Social Center Organizations. 
 
 This spontaneous nation-wide movement for the use of 
 the school as a social center has gradually taken on a more 
 tangible form. The first Social Center Conference came 
 together at Dallas, Texas, on February 17th, 1911, at the 
 request of Colonel Frank P. Holland. Oklahoma has or- 
 ganized a State Social Center Association, and many cities 
 have social center committees. 
 
 A few years ago, two Pittsburg women, Mrs. Vander- 
 grift and Mrs. David Kirk, became interested in bettering 
 social conditions by putting moving pictures on a moral 
 
The School as a Social Center. 29 
 
 foundation. This idea broadened and developed into the 
 socializing of the school, So the Social Center Association 
 of America was formed, with Dr. Josiah Strong, of New 
 York, as President. It was thought best to hold a confer- 
 ence ; with Mr. Ward's assistance, therefore, it was 
 arranged to meet in Madison, Wisconsin. On October 
 26th, 1911, the First National Conference on Civic and 
 Social Center Development convened and held meetings 
 three days, hearing and discussing every phase of the 
 work. The Convention was scheduled to meet again in 
 1912, but was put off on account of the Presidential elec- 
 tion. 
 
 The Movement Abroad. 
 
 Though it is more developed in America, tile social 
 center movement is not confined to this country. The 
 Scottish Christian Social Union opens the schoolhouse as 
 a neighborhood clubhouse. The aims of the association, 
 though religious, are not essentially different from the 
 English or American centers. The English schools pro- 
 mote the same recreational and social features that we do. 
 But the Government charges rent for the use of the build- 
 ings, and the centers are kept open at the expense of 
 private organizations. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, who is 
 very much interested in promoting the social side of the 
 school's activities, has been trying for several years to get 
 the government to insure the premanency of the work by 
 taking it over. As yet her efforts have met with little 
 success, but it is hoped that the goverment will soon be 
 ready to take charge of this important work. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 ITS RELATION TO OTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. 
 "The Little Red Schoolhouse." 
 
 This movement, of course, is not an isolated one, nor 
 unconnected with the other social and educational move- 
 ments of our time. It is easily seen how it arose in re- 
 sponse to the needs of the people, and developed after 
 years of experiment, to its present wealth of scope and 
 organization. It would be wrong to consider this a "new" 
 movement. Rather is it a reinstatement of the school to 
 the important position it held in certain sections of our 
 country in the days of the "LITTLE RED SCHOOL- 
 HOUSE" on the hill, some seventy-five years ago when it 
 was the center of the community's activities. Each one 
 then felt a personal interest in it because it was common 
 property, the common denominator of the village, as it 
 were. 
 
 It was but natural, therefore, that they should look to 
 the schoolhouse to satisfy the desire, deep rooted in the 
 soul of man, for contact with his fellows. The school was 
 often opened in the evening and the patrons would come 
 together to spend their leisure in an old time "spell- 
 down," to hear some wandering lecturer, or maybe a 
 county politician. The granges and clubs met in the 
 schoolroom, the children gave entertainments to their 
 proud fathers and mothers, and preachers of every sect 
 received a respectful hearing. The social life of the 
 neighborhood was thus centered in the school. 
 
 The School Center Abandoned. 
 
 But as the communities grew and the schools were en- 
 larged, the old community spirit began to disappear. The 
 school became more formal, and the patrons were more 
 and more separated from one another on account of 
 specialization of occupation and of interest. For the old 
 
32 University of South Carolina Bulletin. 
 
 time neighborhood civic gatherings were substituted the 
 meetings of party politicians, and for the expression of 
 the will of the community through the school meetings 
 were substituted the platform drawn up by a few party 
 leaders. Sets and cliques were formed, and the in- 
 dividuals of the community began to seek private means 
 of satisfying their social needs. The church, the club, 
 and other organizations were called upon to take up the 
 work so well begun by the school. 
 
 On account of this civic cleavage, the growing demand 
 for recreational activities was not met by the school ; and, 
 as a consequence, these activities fell largely into the 
 hands of commercial enterprises. The school, as a result, 
 lost its magnetism as a social center, and until quite 
 recently was regarded merely as a temporary abode for 
 the children. 
 
 Something Lacking. 
 
 However, the private and sectarian agencies did not 
 prove capable of fulfilling the functions which had been 
 taken away from the school. Many of the old agencies of 
 morality have now lost power over the community. The 
 institutions whose stability depended at all upon tradition, 
 convention, or simple faith, are losing ground before the 
 steady advance of reason. They have failed to get the 
 members of the community acquainted with one another, 
 or to draw them together in the interest of its civic and 
 social welfare. 
 
 The school, restricted as it had become, was unable to 
 do what was expected of it. There was but little in its 
 work which helped to propagate the true community 
 spirit. The school's government is based upon unquestion- 
 ing obedience ; but obedience alone is not enough to make 
 a good citizen in a democratic country. The work of the 
 school, therefore, did not accomplish as much as was 
 hoped for in making efficient citizens of our children, 
 The schoolhouse was regarded only as a place for un- 
 pleasant work, and no effort was made to guide the 
 recreational activities of the neighborhood. Almost no 
 
The School as a Social Center. 33 
 
 guidance was furnished by the school for the proper use of 
 the leisure hours, which play such an important role in 
 the education and life of the child. Like so many other 
 agencies the restricted school was unable to meet the 
 growing demands made upon it. On account of these 
 demands the school had to be adapted to the new require- 
 ments, and this called for a wider use of the property of 
 the school. 
 
 Evening and Vacation Schools. 
 
 Though night schools in this country were organized as 
 early as 1849 and vacation schools were started in 1866, 
 their scope was, as yet, restricted as that of the day school. 
 They were doing good work and met a real need, but the 
 work was largely vocational and specialized ; anq^ as yet 
 they did little to satisfy the need of a social center. In 
 this respect their defects were the same as those of the 
 common day school. 
 
 Growth of the Public Lecture System. 
 
 To increase the efficiency of their teaching corps, schools 
 in various parts of the country began inviting professors 
 from the normal schools to address the teachers, and the 
 public was usually admitted. From these meetings, 
 primarily for teachers, most of the free lecture systems 
 took their origin. They grew rapidly from the very first, 
 because they furnished to some extent a long needed op- 
 portunity of meeting in a healthy social environment. 
 This movement may indeed be regarded as a pioneer of 
 the new social center movement. 
 
 Teacher-Patron Associations. 
 
 During the winter of 1885-6 the farmers of Hesperia, 
 Michigan, were invited to meet with the local teachers' 
 association, The result was so successful that the prac- 
 tice was continued, and in 1893 the Oceania and Newago 
 Counties Joint Grangers' and Teachers' Association was 
 formed. Although the chief topics of discussion were 
 
34 University of South Carolina Bulletin. 
 
 educational, it was so arranged that- the discussion was 
 about equally divided between the teachers and the 
 patrons. According to the statement of Hon. D. E. 
 McClure, leader of the movement, it met a social need, 
 and, therefore, proved a success. 
 
 The movement has grown in scope as well as in 
 numbers. The patrons have been brought to feel more 
 personal interest and ownership in all that pertains to their 
 schools. The Mother's Clubs, which have done so much to 
 better the schools and to promote a wider use of their 
 resources, sprang from this interest. In Houston, Texas, 
 for example, the Mothers' Clubs furnished free lunches 
 for the children of some of the schools ; and the Parents' 
 Association of the University of Chicago gave $3,700 
 in 1909 for socializing the schools. 
 
 The Playground Movement. 
 
 In many instances, the women of the community were 
 the first to see the need of a public playground for the 
 children. Almost all the schools had grounds of some 
 sort, but there was no organization of play activities, and 
 in many places to children were forbidden the use of the 
 grounds after school hours. In 1909 the Detroit Council 
 of Women started a campaign to obtain a school appro- 
 priation for the support of organized playground activities. 
 After three years of effort and of private support they 
 were successful. Even before this, other cities had 
 established playgrounds, which, as a rule, were opened to 
 the whole community during different hours of the day. 
 Today the movement is so widespread that an American 
 Association has been formed, which publishes the ' 'Play- 
 ground," a monthly devoted to play activities all over the 
 country. 
 
 The School the Natural Center. 
 
 These movements which naturally grew up about the 
 school were feeling the way, so to speak, to a solution of 
 the problem of supplying the something that was lacking 
 in the life of the community. As they grew about the 
 
The School as a Social Center. 35 
 
 school, they revealed more and more clearly the fitness of 
 this institution to be the co-ordinating agent for^all the 
 social forces and interests. 
 
 The school is located in the place most conveniently 
 reached by the whole community, and is the one institu- 
 tion no community will do without. Moreover, at the 
 time that the community needs it, there is no other need for 
 it; and, if kept closed it is only yielding part interest on the 
 investment. Again, the building belongs to all alike, and is 
 free from the suggestions and associations that are con- 
 nected with social, political, and religious or sectarian 
 structures. No air of charity hovers about it ; no feelings 
 of class superiority and inferiority. It has spacious 
 rooms, usually an auditorium, and very often a gymna- 
 sium ; and is well adapted to use as a neighborhood club- 
 house. I 
 
 The Agents of the Work. 
 
 The social center has developed more or less spon- 
 taneously and simultaneously in the different communi- 
 tier. The first stage is charaterized by the voluntary efforts 
 of individuals to make the school mean what it should. 
 When the workers are paid by the community, the second 
 state has been reached, and the school may be truly called 
 a "Social Center." 
 
 Various institutions, as they came to realize the fitness 
 of the school for the accomplishment of this end, began to 
 advocate the plan of making it a social center by provid- 
 ing money for paying workers, and obtaining whatever 
 additional equipment was desired. In Springfield, Massa- 
 chusetts, the men's club of a large church was suc- 
 cessful in launching the work in one of their public 
 schools. It was the Woman's College Club which agitated 
 the movement in Patterson, New Jersey. In Rochester 
 the combined efforts of eleven different organizations gave 
 Mr. Ward an opportunity to begin the work of making the 
 school a neighborhood center. 
 
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 The Ancestor of the Movement. 
 
 Although this movement has borrowed the technique of 
 other kindred movements and contains little that is new, 
 yet it cannot be said to be the enlargement of the lecture 
 system, the settlement work, or the playground move- 
 ment. Its parent, as has already been pointed out, is 
 "The Little Red Schoolhouse," and its aim is to enable 
 the members of the community to meet socially in the 
 same simple relations that our father did in the old neigh- 
 borhood gatherings. 
 
 While this movement has borrowed much from the other 
 movements, it has given as much to them. It has drawn 
 them into the school center and given a new life to them 
 all. The playground movement, the parent-teachers' 
 association— all find a widened sphere through the vitali- 
 zation of the work of the school. 
 
 Part of a Greater Series. 
 
 This great movement is only one of a series of social 
 movements now going on. This extended use of the 
 school has its counterpart in the extension work of the 
 university. A few years ago a university was thought to 
 fulfil it mission if it put out efficient graduates. But now 
 it is realized that the university owes a duty to the whole 
 commonwealth. The University of Wisconsin, which has 
 been called the "Model University," touches the life of 
 the whole State and to a considerable extent guides its 
 policies. 
 
 The Y. M. C. A. and the settlement workers try to 
 accomplish the same end as the school center and in very 
 much the same ways. In fact, the settlement workers 
 often use the school as a center. The county school fairs, 
 the county track meets, and oratorical contests seek to 
 promote the wider use of the schools and to increase the 
 interest in the local activities. To make a good showing 
 in one of these contests, the individual schools must teach 
 the children manual training and some of the other arts, 
 give them instruction in athletics, in speaking and so 
 
The School as a Social Center. 37 
 
 forth. Thus these movements are all promoters of this 
 wider use. 
 
 There are also numerous "City Beautiful" Clubs, Civic 
 Leagues, and Sanitary Organizations, trying to improve 
 conditions of their community. Parks and gardens are 
 provided for the free use of the public, and in numerous 
 ways efforts are being made to increase the happiness of 
 the community. 
 
 All these activities are a response to the realization of a 
 broader meaning of education and of life. The demand 
 which the schools of the future must meet will be social 
 and recreational as well as the scholastic ones which it 
 has been called on to satisfy in the past. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 THE VALUE OF THE MOVEMENT. 
 
 Classification of Values. 
 
 Having seen what the movement is, we come now to a 
 consideration of its value and its effectiveness, It will be 
 seen from what follows that the Social Center Movement 
 has both social, civic, recreational, moral and educational 
 value. 
 
 Its Social Value to the City. 
 
 In the life of the city, neighborly feeling is almost 
 entirely lost. Few know their neighbors or care about 
 .them. Except, of course, where the school is used, there 
 is no common point of contact, no common interests or 
 friendly sympathies. There is no common meeting place ; 
 no place where lines of distinction are not drawn. For a 
 large part of the population there is no way to enter in 
 any sort of healthy, social relationship. At the school, 
 however, all can feel at home ; and, by their common 
 interests bound to one another, become more conscious of 
 their social duties and responsibilities. The social center 
 makes even the life of the city seem homelike. As 
 someone remarked to Mr. Ward : "Won't it be home- 
 like when other cities take up this idea? One will always 
 know that there is a friendly, interesting place, not far 
 away where he can spend an evening, a place where class 
 lines, religions and and political differences don't count, 
 where people are just folks meeting on common ground, 
 in the common interest." 
 
 Solution of the Rural Problem. 
 
 Many families of rural districts are so isolated as to be 
 practically hermits. The life of the country is especially 
 hard on the wives of the farmers, whose lives are too 
 often filled with drudgery and maddening monotony. 
 
40 University of South Carolina Bulletin. 
 
 Consequently, where the school is not used as a center, 
 there is but little in the life interesting to the farmer, his 
 wife, and children. If, at times, he and his are dull, it is 
 because there has been all work and no play, no social 
 intercourse, no quickening of mind, no warming of heart. 
 When we add to these facts the additional one that the 
 education which the children have been getting in school 
 has not been calculated to increase their interest in the 
 life of the farm, it is not surprising that the farmer's 
 children look forward to the time when they can leave the 
 country for good. Many of our industrial and moral 
 diseases can be traced directly to this unattractiveness of 
 country life. The problem of holding the farmer's child- 
 ren in the country and creating a stable and efficient rural 
 population is the problem of so enriching rural life as to 
 provide adequately for their social needs. The school- 
 house common to all, will be, and in many communities 
 has already become, the means of accomplishing this end. 
 The scattered rural population needs co-operation and 
 association even more than other classes do. For they 
 lack those comforts and institutions which enrich the lives 
 of city dwellers. When the schools have succeeded in the 
 enrichment of country life, the present alarming exodus 
 from the country will cease. 
 
 Better Government. 
 
 The use of the school for political meetings and voting 
 adds much dignity to the ballot. The children as well as 
 the adults learn to regard it more seriously. The atmos- 
 phere of the school suggests earnestness, sobriety, 
 cleanliness and order, while the old voting places were 
 often unfit for a gentleman to enter. In making the 
 voting place more attractive, therefore, the school renders 
 a great service to the cause of intelligent balloting. 
 
 Publicitly is a sure cure for political corruption. When 
 people meet and freely discuss politics and speak out what 
 everybody ought to know, the corrupt politician is forced 
 to retire. On the other hand, it has been repeatedly 
 pointed out that the honest officeholders have no way of 
 
The School as a Social Center. 41 
 
 finding out what the people want, and this opportunity for 
 public discussion is regarded as a direct advance along the 
 lines of democracy and good goverment. 
 
 A good citizen must be not only a good man, but one 
 who understands and respects the laws and customs of his 
 country. The hundreds of thousands of immigrants who 
 land every year at Ellis Island have to learn our way of 
 life, our manners and customs, before they can become 
 desirable American citizens. In the big cities where the 
 foreign population is considerable, the school is called 
 upon to naturalize them. And this it does best in its 
 capacity as a social center. For here they catch our spirit 
 and learn our mannerisms, ignorance of which necessarily 
 constitutes a formidable barrier of prejudice against their 
 race or nationality. 
 
 Moreover, it makes for a healthy tolerance and •broad- 
 mindedness when native and foreigner meet at the center 
 and each learns to respect the good and true in the other. 
 "The peasant father acquires a different feeling toward 
 Americans when his daughter dances his national dance 
 before him and tells of the good times she has after 
 school." (Perry, "The Community-used School.") Mrs. 
 Humphry Ward, impressed by the influence of the social 
 center on the foreigners, said of a New York center : 
 ' 'Here were girls, some of whom could only have arrived in 
 your country a year or two ago, and all of them the 
 children of aliens, appealing to your Anglo-Saxon fore- 
 fathers, and talking of your Revolutionary War and the 
 Monroe Doctrine, liberty and self-goverment, with an 
 intensity of personal appropriation such as no mere school 
 teaching could have produced." 
 
 The Value of Play. 
 
 Four theories have been advanced to explain the origin 
 of play. The first is that it is a means of getting rid of 
 superfluous energy ; the second that it builds up, recreates 
 the system ; the third that it is a preparation for the 
 serious activities of life, a mode of education; and the fourth 
 that it is the cropping out of the instincts which connect 
 
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 us with the remote past. Probably all are partly right. 
 It is significant, however, that all agree that play is 
 essential and has biological, social and educational value. 
 If well directed, it will result in great benefit to the child ; 
 but well directed or not, the instinct will appear and insist 
 on expression. 
 
 The importance of providing means for wholesome 
 amusement, both for old and young, is therefore, evident. 
 A life without the natural pleasure of recreation, of sports 
 and games, is neither a full nor a healthy life. The 
 caged-in child of the crowded districts finds it almost 
 unbearable without some place for play. The country lad 
 finds it equally hard with nothing to do but work. More- 
 over, the game has value as a moral agent. The lessons 
 of obedience, team-work, perseverance, self-control, and 
 the desire for fair play, are the first requisites of a good 
 player, and of course the first requisites for true success 
 in life. 
 
 It is at the "center" also that many men and boys first 
 form the habit of using the bath regularly. Not till after 
 a game or some strenuous exercise do they feel the need 
 of a bath ; and to many the "center" affords the first 
 opportunity for decent satisfaction of this need. The 
 inculcation of such habits of personal hygiene cannot 
 indeed be overestimated. 
 
 Drives Out Idleness. 
 
 It is proverbial that idleness breeds mischief, vice and 
 crime. Having nothing better to do, boys form gangs 
 which become the terror of the police and the neighbor- 
 hood. The men— in rural districts as well as the cities— 
 usually gamble or indulge in other forms of vice. The 
 social center affords a better means for satisfying this 
 natural craving for excitement,— one not accompanied by 
 disastrous results. Boy, and even girl, gangs have been 
 transformed into enthusiastic athletic and debating clubs. 
 And the men find civic discussion a much better diversion 
 than gambling or loafing. 
 
The School as a Social Center. 43 
 
 The Rival of the Saloon. 
 
 In his article, "The Schoolhouse or the Saloon," Mr. 
 Ward quotes a working man as saying : ' 'Provide a place 
 where the fellows will be just as free as they are in the 
 saloons, without the headache, and I am with you. I 
 don't like the booze, but take away the sociability, the man- 
 to-man frankness, the practice of the brotherhood that the 
 church is talking about, which the saloon supplies, leave 
 nothing in its place, and the town will quit being human.' ' 
 
 In the absence of any other social center, the saloon, 
 with its attractive music, fixtures, and its sociability, has 
 been able to hold many whom it could not otherwise have 
 attracted. In Milwaukee the Schlitz beer gardens were 
 driven out of business by the attractive school centers. 
 
 Makes Dancing a Wholesome Amusment. 
 
 Because of the improper use of dancing, the church has 
 frowned down on it without, perhaps, carefully consider- 
 ing its worth. Through the medium of the center, dances 
 are now carried on under conditions that make for 
 morality instead of immorality. Boys and girls have 
 desirable companions. Sometimes fathers are seen 
 dancing with their daughters, and mothers with their 
 sons. Improper dancing, fraught with moral danger, is 
 soon crushed out when centers are provided with well 
 supervised dance halls. 
 
 Fights Against the Social Evil. 
 
 Thus the worst breeding center of the social disease is 
 wiped out. When girls have a place for wholesome 
 amusements, the diversion of the street loses its charm. 
 The report of the Chicago Vice Commission has plainly 
 shown how much of the social vice is due to the influence 
 of the immoral dance hall, and to the utter lack of any 
 place for wholesome and legitimate recreation. With the 
 advent of the social center into a community, many of the 
 young folks are saved from a life of shame to which they 
 would have otherwise succumbed. 
 
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 Fills Out Our Educational System. 
 
 For the children over fourteen who can afford to 
 continue their education, we have provided high schools ; 
 but for the children who are forced to stop and go to 
 work, we have done very little. Excellent evening 
 schools are open at night ; however, the child, tired out 
 from his day's work, has little inclination to do hard 
 studying at night. The evening school does not meet 
 some of his most important needs. For him the social 
 center furnishes a pleasant means of continued education ; 
 and when pleasure is mixed in with study, school ceases 
 to be a forbidding institution. 
 
 The rapid advances and changes made in the industrial 
 world necessitates continual schooling on the part of 
 adults in order to keep pace with them. The laborer and 
 mechanic must know something of the inventions and 
 changes in their lines of work, so that they may adapt 
 themselves. The farmer must learn the newest method 
 in scientific farming to derive the greatest returns for his 
 labor. The parent must keep abreast of the times in 
 order to hold the respect of his children. 
 
 From all of these have come statements that through 
 the educational extention of the school social center they 
 have been able to keep young in spirit and find a new zest 
 in life. Reading and investigation along various lines is 
 greatly stimulated, and librarians declare that the whole 
 character of the reading is changed as a result of the 
 public lectures and discussions. 
 
 Reactionary Effects. 
 
 The prime function of the school has always been, and 
 will always countinue to be, educational. Whatever inter- 
 feres with the performance of its first duty must be pushed 
 aside. If the social center interf erred with the perform- 
 ance of the school's present duties, it would be desirable 
 to remove it. But experience has given testimony to the 
 opposite effect. When the children have had access to 
 the school during the vacation months, their teachers 
 
The School as a Social Center. 45 
 
 declare that they come back in better condition physically 
 and mentally, and settle down quicker than when they 
 had no such advantages. 
 
 ' 'In cities where this work has been organized and given 
 a fair test,' ' writes Mr. Hanmer, "school authorities are 
 practically unanimous that (1) class work is better ; (2) 
 the health of the school children is improved; (3) a whole- 
 some school spirit is developed; (4) there is less trouble 
 about discipline owing to the closer relation and better 
 understanding between the pupils and teachers." 
 
 "The Keystone of the Arch." 
 
 Likewise, Mr. Collier, in his article, "The Keystone of 
 the Arch." strikes at the root of the matter when he thus 
 describes the significance of the movement: "It seemed to 
 the writer that the social center conference was working 
 very close to that point in the arch of American institu- 
 tions where the school and scholarship, on the one side, 
 and public action, the family life, and the vast vague 
 emotional life of the people, on the other side, are destined 
 to be joined and made one." 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 ITS EXTENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 
 A Questionnaire. 
 
 To ascertain the extent of the Social Center Movement 
 in South Carolina, the following questionnaire was sent 
 out to some sixty-five school superintendents all over the 
 State : 
 
 (1) Is there any individual or organization in your com- 
 munity that consciously seeks to use the schoolhouse 
 as a social center— that is, to bring the patrons of the 
 school together for the purpose of recreation, entertain- 
 ment, instruction, or discussion of matters pertaining to 
 the welfare of the community, the State orthe Nation? If 
 so, please send the name and address of such individual or 
 organization, and describe as exactly as possible what they 
 have been doing along these lines. 
 
 (2) If the school is ever used for non-school purposes, 
 please state what they are, and how often such uses are 
 made. 
 
 (3) Is the school used because it is the only convenient 
 meeting place, or because of some other reason? If so, 
 state what. 
 
 (4) Is the school used for any purposes during the 
 vacation months? If so, state what. 
 
 (5) Is there anyone who seeks to organize or direct the 
 activities of the young people after school hours? 
 
 (6) Are there any literary societies, athletic, or other 
 organizations of school children that make use of the 
 schoolhouse? 
 
 (7) Are there any clubs, societies, or organizations 
 (civic, social, political, etc.) that make use of the school- 
 house? If so, give the names of each. 
 
 (8) What benefits, if any, have resulted from this wider 
 use of the school? 
 
 (9) State the year that this wider use was first made, 
 and what was responsible for it? 
 
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 (10) Have you or the community derived any sugges- 
 tions from the literature on the social center work in 
 other sections of the country? If so, name the books or 
 articles which have been of most service to you. 
 
 Answers were received from fifty of these school 
 officials. Although the number of replies is too small to 
 warrant a detailed publication of results, tabulated in the 
 order of the questions, or to draw any conclusions from 
 them, yet taken together, they shed some interesting light 
 on local conditions with respect to this subject. 
 
 Social Centers. 
 
 Out of the 50 replies, the heads of the schools in 13 
 communities stated that there were individuals or organi- 
 zations in their communities that sought to make the 
 schoolhouse a social center ; 33 answered that there were 
 none ; 4 did not answer. 
 
 Uses for Non-school Purposes. 
 
 Thirty reported the use of the schools for non-school 
 purposes ; 20 did not. These uses were the following, 
 given in the order of frequency of mention : Lyceum 
 Courses and Entertainment, Athletic Organizations, Pub- 
 lic Lectures, Musical Entertainments, U. D. C. Meetings, 
 Church and Sunday School, Baseball Teams, Theatre, 
 Social Meetings, Plays (usually local talent), Civic 
 Leagues, Secret Orders and Lodges, Basketball Teams, 
 General Meetings, School Improvement Associations, Track 
 Teams, Mothers' Meetings, Public Library, Gymnasium, 
 Political Meetings, "The Only Public Hall," Corn Clubs, 
 Tomato Clubs, Boy Scouts, 'Teachers' Associations, The 
 Chamber of Commerce, Reading Rooms, ' 'Oyster Suppers, 
 etc.," D. A. R. Meetings, Woman's Federation Meetings, 
 Moving Pictures, Y. M. C. A., Civic Clubs, Cooking 
 Classes, Sewing Clubs, School Gardens, Mechanics' Clubs, 
 Night Schools, Meetings of Oratorical Associations, Choral 
 Society, Health Lectures, Conference of Organizations. 
 
 This last named activity is worthy of special comment. 
 In Charleston the Memminger Home and School Associa- 
 
The School as a Social Center. 49 
 
 tion called together fifteen organizations, which met at 
 the Memminger School and formed a conference to start a 
 campaign against the "Red Light" District and the 
 gambling dems adjacent to the school. This great 
 forward movement, whose value is as yet unknown, was 
 undertaken in the interest of and through the medium of 
 the school. 
 
 Some schools which are not used for non-school purposes 
 have literary societies in connection with their regular 
 school work, and these have a tendency to enlarge the 
 scope of the school activities. The literary society has an 
 important place among the activities of the "center," and 
 in many cases is more than a common school activity. It 
 is worth mentioning, therefore, that 27 communities re- 
 ported literary societies in their schools. 
 
 Why the School Is Used. 
 
 Of the 30 communities using the schools for non-school 
 purposes, 28 gave reasons for their use, which follow in 
 the order of frequency of mention : ' 'The only convenient 
 place," "the most convenient place," the social center," 
 "the proper place for such activities," "good auditorium," 
 "the property of the community," "to make it a social 
 center," "to help the school," "freedom from sectarian- 
 ism," "no charge," "meetings usually educational in 
 character." 
 
 Why the School Is Not Used. 
 
 Although no effort was made to find out why the school 
 was not used, a few reasons were offered, showing in 
 most cases a very limited knowledge and appreciation of 
 the movement, or the lack of leadership ; for example : 
 "Lack of auditorium," "should not be used," "not 
 necessary," "no one has applied," "trustees opposed," 
 "not centrally located." 
 
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 Uses During Vacation Months. 
 
 To the question, "Is the school used during vacation 
 months?" 19 of the 30 communities reporting a wider use 
 answered "yes ;" 11, "no." That is, over half of the 
 schools that are used for non-school purposes are used all 
 the year around. The uses, though not as numerous, and 
 having a little different order of importance assigned to 
 them, are very nearly the same as those made during the 
 school term. 
 
 Direction of the Children's Plays. 
 
 Of the communities studied, 19 have some one to guide 
 the activities of the children after school ; 26 have no one ; 
 5 did not answer. The directors in these communities 
 were : School principals, one or more teachers, captain of 
 the Boy Scouts, leader of the Camp Fire Girls, playground 
 instructor, etc. 
 
 A few respondents volunteered the statements that ' 'the 
 children of the rural districts find occupation in the chores 
 of the farm" and that "the pupils are members of organi- 
 zations such as the Y. M. C. A. and private clubs." 
 
 Benefits of the Wider Use. 
 
 The following benefits, in the order of the importance 
 given them by the respondents, were reported from 13 of 
 the communities which had widened the use of their 
 school: "School emphasized," "brings teachers and 
 patrons together," "better moral support," "better finan- 
 cial support," "development of mind and muscle, " "better 
 understanding of school work by parents," "general 
 awakening of the community," "better average attend- 
 ance," "donations," "money raised for school organiza- 
 tions. ' ' 
 
 The Beginnings of the Wider Use. 
 
 The following table shows the beginning and growth of 
 these ' 'wider use' ' activities in our State. : 
 
The School as a Social Center. 51 
 
 Number of Communities 
 Year. Beginning the Wider Use. 
 1901 1 
 
 1906 1 
 
 1907 1 
 
 1908 1 
 
 1909 1 
 
 1910 2 
 
 1911 2 
 
 1912 2 
 
 1913 1 
 
 The agencies responsible for these activities are : The 
 school authorities, civic organizations, new buildings, 
 desire to develop schools, observation of activities else- 
 where, the citizens, Parker Mill authorities. * 
 
 Reading on the Problem. 
 
 The heads of the schools of 11 communities stated that 
 they had received suggestions from the current litera- 
 ture on the subject. This included school journals, reports, 
 World's Work, N. E. A. Reports, Our Country Schools 
 (Kern), Russell Sage Foundation Publications, Southern 
 School News, Ladies' Home Journal, Civics and Health 
 (Allen), Home and School (Mrs. E. C. Grice), and the 
 writings of Dr. A. K. Aldinger, Physical Director, New 
 York City. 
 
 Report of County Superintendents of Education. 
 
 The results of a questionnaire sent to the County Super- 
 intendents of education by Professor W. K. Tate, State 
 Inspector of Rural Schools, are here included with his 
 permission. From 41 of the counties, he received replies 
 as to the various activities of the school, and these are 
 tabulated below : 
 
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 Activities. Yes. No. 
 
 Annual Field Days -....." 24 17 
 
 County School Fairs 4 37 
 
 Contests in Declamation for Elementary 
 
 Schools 15 26 
 
 Contests in Declamations for High 
 
 Schools 24 17 
 
 Corn Clubs 28 13 
 
 Tomato Clubs 19 22 
 
 Local School Improvement Associations. 28(270 Ass'ns)13 
 
 School Literary Societies 25(210 Scho'ls)16 
 
 School Entertainment Courses 25(210 Scho'ls)22 
 
 County School Journals 2 39 
 
 Summary. 
 
 The information which has been obtained as to condi- 
 tions in South Carolina seems to point clearly to the fact 
 that we are doing more in this line than is commonly 
 realized. The movement is in the first stage, —the work 
 is handled entirely by volunteer organizations and individ- 
 uals with no paid workers in the field,— and many of its 
 promoters have only a limited vision of its scope. It has 
 not yet been well organized, except in one or two instances, 
 and the activities of the center have yet to be regarded as 
 part of the school's regular program, and provided for as 
 such. 
 
 During the past two years there has been a growing 
 demand for leadership in these activities. But this fea- 
 ture of the school work is still undifferentiated from the 
 regular work of the school. The teachers are called upon 
 to carry on these wider activities, which, in communities 
 where the work is better organized and more different- 
 iated, is carried on by special teachers. However, it is to 
 be hoped we will not be long in reaching this second stage 
 in the evolution of the movement, for no movement can 
 succeed or yield good results if it has not trained leaders. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 WHAT WE SHOULD DO IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 
 Adaptation Necessary. 
 
 Local conditions give to each social center a certain 
 individuality. Features most successful in New York 
 might not be so well adapted to conditions in South Caro- 
 lina ; moreover features favorable to one part of the State 
 might need modification in another. However, it has 
 been clearly demonstrated by North Augusta and other 
 communities that the social center can be and is being 
 adapted to conditions in this State. Professor % W. K. 
 Tate, State Inspector of Rural Schools, asserts that 
 South Carolina communities respond very readily to any 
 efforts to make the school the social center. As one evi- 
 dence of this, he points out that whenever a new school 
 building is erected the community insists on having a large 
 auditorium. 
 
 In making most of our school buildings social centers, 
 there would be an initial expense for providing means of 
 lighting the building. This would, however, be rather 
 insignificant. For the best results the desks would have 
 to be unscrewed from the floor, which, indeed, they 
 should be, anyway. For those equipping new buildings, 
 it would be well to install the new type of desk, which on 
 account of the rubber tips on its front legs, and slides on 
 the back ones, can be moved about noiselessly. Thus the 
 floor can be cleared, quickly and without confusion, for 
 receptions, dancing, or games. 
 
 It should be clearly understood at the beginning that the 
 school is not to be used for a loafing place. People who 
 come to the schoolhouse should have some purpose in com- 
 ing, be it for games, exercise, reading, conversation, 
 discussion, or what not. The spirit of coming with a 
 special purpose will keep the place from degenerating as 
 does the ordinary unsupervised club. 
 
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 Use the School as a Clubhouse. 
 
 Many of our schools in South Carolina have already been 
 used as headquarters for some of the various organizations 
 formed chiefly for promoting the interest of the school ; 
 and some, for all good non-partisan organizations. All 
 our schools, however, should encourage the use of the 
 school buildings for this purpose. There is no good reason 
 why every school in the State should not house all the 
 civic spirited organizations of the community. The best 
 possible place for the parent-teacher association, the 
 idustrial clubs, the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, civic 
 and community clubs, is the schoolhouse. 
 
 Establish Public Lectures. 
 
 There is no school in the State which, if some one will 
 take hold of the project, cannot have a system of public 
 lectures. A list should be formed, containing the names 
 of all the prominent men of the community who are will- 
 ing to speak if called on. Then a program can be arrang- 
 ed, and these men can be secured without expense to the 
 school. By paying the actual expenses of the speaker, 
 lecturers can also be obtained from the various colleges of 
 the State. It is within the reach of all our schools to give 
 a full series of lectures embracing almost any subject 
 desired. Every school would find it worth while to own a 
 stereopticon and several sets of slides which could be used 
 to illustrate lectures and to enliven the classroom work as 
 well. For the school boy and the college man alike, a few 
 slides thrown on the screen will give a quicker, clearer, 
 and more comprehensive conception of a subject than any 
 other method of illustration. No school can afford to be 
 without one. 
 
 Promote Political Deliberation and Decision. 
 
 Political meetings, as well as civic gatherings, prove 
 most satisfactory when conducted in the schoolhouse. 
 Every school which has an auditorium will be found a 
 convenient place for such meetings. Our schools should 
 
The School as a Social Center. 55 
 
 also be used as polling places. The basement or one room 
 will suffice, and the election will proceed in a more digni- 
 fied manner than is usually the case. 
 
 Make Use of the Playgrounds and Gymnasium. 
 
 Every school has some sort of playground. The grounds 
 should be opened to the children when they need them ; 
 and at other times should be used by the whole neighbor- 
 hood. Some of our schools also have a gymnasium ; all of 
 them should have one. These gymnasiums should be kept 
 open most of the day, and used by the community as well 
 as the school. If a town has waterworks, the school 
 should be provided with shower baths, which are almost 
 indispensable in a gymnasium, or after exercise on the play- 
 ground. | 
 
 Concentrate the Library Facilities. 
 
 There are some towns of the State in which a library 
 is maintained independently of the school. By uniting 
 with the school, the library could be of great value to the 
 school, and at the same time, more convenient for the 
 people of the community. 
 
 It would be very easy to start a museum in connection 
 with the library. People have many old relics which they 
 are loath to throw away, and yet have no place to keep them. 
 They would in many cases welcome the chance of preserv- 
 ing them without the trouble of taking care of them. 
 
 Make the School a Public Health Department. 
 
 A very practical use of the schoolhouse for any com- 
 munity would be the use of its auditorium for health 
 lectures. According to the modern conception, the doctor 
 can do his greatest good by showing people how to avoid 
 disease. The local physicians and dentists in many cases 
 would be glad to give lectures on the care of the body and 
 on the different phases of hygiene. 
 
 There is an increasing demand made everywhere on the 
 schools to give the children physical examinations and 
 
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 other necessary medical attention. Our schools in South 
 Carolina should wake up to this need of the school children 
 and make the school a branch health office. 
 
 Arrange for Moving Pictures. 
 
 For our schools to show moving pictures, co-operation 
 will be necessary. The State Superintendent of Educa- 
 tion, for example, or the State Teachers' Association, 
 might buy reels and rent them to the schools all over the 
 State, thus acting as an "exchange." This very popular 
 diversion could be very widely utilized and converted into 
 one of the most valuable of school agencies. 
 
 Only a Beginning. 
 
 These are some of the things that are now practical in 
 almost every community of the State. As the movement 
 takes hold and grows we shall doubtless develop features 
 peculiarly fitted to our own conditions. Each year will 
 bring a growing demand for the further utilization of the 
 school as a social center. And we of South Carolina 
 should counsel together and join hands thus to broaden 
 the scope of education in the State, and to enrich the life 
 of the individual and of the community. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
 
 Note : The list of abbreviations used in this bibliography 
 and the addresses of publications will be found in 
 Appendix A. 
 
 The School as a Social Center. 
 
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 Vol. 1, pp. 330-34. 
 
 Addams, J. Newer Ideals of Peace. New York, 1907. 
 
 American, Sadie. The Movement for Vacation Schools. 
 
 Am. Jour, of Sociol., Nov., 1898, pp. 309-25. 
 
 Andrews, Mrs. Fannie Fern. The Further *Use of 
 School Buildings. New Boston. July, 1910. Vol. 1, No. 
 3, p. 115. 
 
 Andrews, Mrs. Fannie Fern. Parent's Association and 
 the Public Schools. Char, and the Com. Vol. 17, 335-44. 
 Nov. 24, 1906. 
 
 Andrews, Mrs. Fannie Fern. Schoolhouses as Neighbor- 
 hood Centers. New Boston. March, 1911. 
 
 Annual Reports of the Evening Play Centers Committee, 
 25 Grosvenor Place, S. W. London. 
 
 The Athletic Badge Test (Post Card Bulletin). 3 pp. 2 
 cents. R. Sage F. 
 
 Bagehot, Walter. The Age of the Discussion. Physics 
 and Politics. Part 3. D. Appleton & Co., N. Y. City. 
 $1.50. 
 
 Baker, Ray Stannard, Do It for Rochester. Am. Mag. 
 
 70 : 6683-96. 
 
 Balliett, Thomas M. The Organization of a System of 
 Evening Schools. N. E. A. 1904, pp. 278-305. 
 
 Bancroft, Jessie H. Games for the Playground, Home, 
 School, and Gymnasium, p. 456. The Macmillan Co., N. 
 Y., 1909. $1.50. 
 
 Barnum, Mrs. O. Shepard. Woman's Work in the 
 Socialization of the Schools. N. E. A, 1908, pp. 1231-36. 
 Discussion, pp. 1237-1238. 
 
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 Baxter, Sylvester. Widening the Use of the Public 
 Schoolhouse. World's Work, 5 : 3247-48. March, 1903. 
 
 Bellamy, George A. Evening Recreation. Playground. 
 5 : 239-44. 
 
 Bemis, F. P. A New Substitute for Saloons. Play- 
 ground. Feb,, 1912. 
 
 Berry, G. Open Schoolhouse. Bookman. 34 : 517-24. 
 Jan., 1912. 
 
 Betts, G. H. Social Principles of Education. 315 pp. 
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 Bibliography of the City and Rural Schools as Commu- 
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 Biggs, A. H. Evenings of Amusement. El. Sch., 1890, 
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 Bishop, E. C. How Should the Athletics of the Y. M. C. A. 
 Supplement Those of the Public Schools? Hygiene and 
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 Press, Battle Creek, Mich. 20 cents. 
 
 Blaine, A. M. The Dramatic in Education. El. Sch. Tr. 
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 Bobbitt, John F. A School as a Community Art and 
 Musical Center. El. Sch. Tr. 12: 119-26. Nov., 1911. 
 
 Brancher, H. S. Social Centers. The Common Ground. 
 Vol. 1, pp. 63-64, June, 1910. 
 
 Bowlker, Mrs. T. J. Woman's Home-Making Function 
 Applied to the Municipality. Am. City. June, 1912. 
 
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 111. $1.00. 
 
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 School. Published by Row, Peterson & Co., pp. 229-38. 
 
 Collins, P. V. The Social Center and the Farmer's 
 Home. Bui. Univ. Wis. 11 pp. 
 
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 Country School as a Social Center. Survey, Aug. 20, 
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 Work in the Rural High School. U. S. Dept. of Agri. 
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 Crosby, Dick J. How May the Rural Schools Be More 
 Closely Related to the Life and Needs of the People? N. 
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 the Rural School to Community Needs- a Summary. Nat. 
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 Joyner, James Yadkin. The Adjustment of the Rural 
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 Rural Recreation Number of the Playground. Vol. V, 
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 Social Centers in Rural Communities. The Common 
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 Social Progress in Country Towns. Survey, Sept. 17, 
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 Buildings, Woman's Municipal League of Boston. Annual 
 Reports of the Board of Education, Chicago, 111. Reports 
 and publications of Boston Home and School Association. 
 Pamphlets published by the Board of Education of Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, on its social center work. Annual Reports of 
 District Superintendent in charge of vacation schools, 
 playgrounds, and evening recreation centers contained in 
 the annual reports of the City Superintendent of Schools ; 
 and the Reports of the Public Lecture Supervisor, New 
 
78 University of South Carolina Bulletin. 
 
 York City. Reports of the Board of Education, Rochester, 
 N. Y., 1905-1907, pages 123-130. Reports and publica- 
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 Annual Reports of the Public Recreation Commission of 
 Columbus, Ohio. Annual Reports of the School Extension 
 Society, Columbus, Ohio. Also, the Annual Reports of 
 the English Board of Education ; reports of the cities of 
 Leeds, Nottingham, Halifax, St. Helens, Widnes, and 
 Manchester, England. Annual Reports of the Directors 
 of Education in Breslau, Berlin, Leipzig, Dusseldorf, Mag- 
 deburg, Posen, Zittan, and Munich. 
 
APPENDIX A. 
 
 Am. Acad, of Poli. and Soc. Sci. (American Academy 
 of Political and Social Science) , Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Am. City (American City), 93 Nassau St. New York 
 City. 
 
 Am. Ed. (American Education) , Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Am. Ed. Rev. (American Educational Review) , 154 Nas- 
 St., New York City. 
 
 Am. Jour, of Sociol. (American Journal of Sociology) , 
 Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Am. Mag. (American Magazine) , New York City. 
 
 Am. Sch. Bd. Jour. (American School Board Journal), 
 9084 Metrop. Bldg., New York City. 
 
 Arena, Trenton, New Jersey. 
 
 Ass'n Seminar (The Association Seminar), Y. M. C. A., 
 Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Atl. Ed. Jour. (Atlantic Educational Journal) , Baltimore, 
 Maryland. 
 
 Atl. Mo. (Atlantic Monthly), 4 Park St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 Bookman, New York City. 
 
 Boston Com. (Boston Commons) , Boston, Mass. 
 
 Bui. Univ. State of N. Y. (University of the State of 
 New York Bulletin) , New York City. 
 
 Bui. Univ. Wis. (University of Wisconsin Bulletin), 
 Madison, Wis. 
 
 Char, and the Com. (Charities and the Commons. Now 
 the "Survey"), 105 E. 22d St., New York City. 
 
 Child, The (English Pub.), G. S. Strechet & Co. , Agents, 
 151 W. 25th St., New York City. 
 
 Cin. Conf. for Good Gov't (Cincinnati Conference for 
 Good City Government, proceedings), Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Circle, The Chicago, 111. 
 
 Col. Sch. Jour. (Colorado School Journal), Address 
 Sup't of Education, Denver, Colo. 
 
 Common Good, Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 Confed. City Gov't (Confederated City Government). 
 
80 University of South Carolina Bulletin. 
 
 Conf. for Ed. in the South (Conference for Education in 
 the South), G. S. Dickerman, 2 Rector St., New York City. 
 
 Council of Supervisors of the Manual Arts, E. D. 
 Griswold, Hastings-Upon-Hudson, N. J. (Yr. Bk., $3.00.) 
 
 C. R. (The Commissioner of Education, Annual 
 Reports), U. S. Department of Education, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 Craftsman, The, New York, City. 
 
 Critic, The, New York City, 
 
 Ed. (Education), The Palmer Co., 120 Boylston St., 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Ed. Exchange (Educational Exchange), Birmingham, 
 Ala. 
 
 Ed. Foundations (Educational Foundations), New York 
 City. 
 
 Ed. Jour. (Educator Journal), Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Ed. Rev. (Educational Review), New York City. 
 
 El. Sch. Tr. (Elementary School Teacher), Univ. of 
 Chicago Press, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Everybody's Mag. (Everybody's Magazine), New York 
 City. 
 
 Farm and Ranch, Dallas, Texas. 
 
 Friend's Intelligencer, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Good Housekeeping, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Home and School League, 1522 Cherry St., Philadelphia, 
 Pa. 
 
 Hygiene and Phys. Ed. (Hygiene and Physical Educa- 
 tion), F. A. BassettCo., Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Ind. (Independent), 130 Fulton St., New York City. 
 
 Interstate Schoolman, Hutchinson, Kansas. 
 
 Jour, of Ped. (Journal of Pedagogy), Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 LaFollette's Weekly, Madison, Wis. 
 
 League of Civic Clubs, Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Missouri Sch. Jour. (Missouri School Journal), Mexico, 
 Missouri. 
 
 Nat. Conf. Char, and Cor. (National Conference of 
 Charities and Correction, proceedings), Alex. Johnson, 
 Sec't., Fort Wayne, Ind. 
 
 Nation, New York City. 
 
The School as a Social Center. 81 
 
 Nat Municipal League (National Municipal League), 
 703 North American Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Nat. Soc. for Study of Ed. (National Society for the 
 Study of Education, addresses and proceedings) , Univ. of 
 Chicago, Chicago, 111. 
 
 N. C. TVs Assembly (North Carolina Teachers' Assem- 
 bly). Address State Dept. of Education, Raleigh, N. C. 
 
 N. D. Ed. Ass'n (North Dakota Educational Associa- 
 tion). Address State Dept. of Education, Bismark, N. D. 
 
 N. E. A. (National Education Association, addresses 
 and proceedings), 36 W. 25th St., New York City. 
 
 New Boston, 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 
 
 New York, The Macmillan Co., New York City. 
 
 Outlook, 287 Fourth Ave., New York City. 
 
 Ped. Sem. (Pedagogical Seminary) , Worchester, Mass. 
 
 Penn. Sch. Jour. (Pennsylvania School Journal). 
 Address Dept. of Education, Harrisburg, Penn. 
 
 Phys. Ed. (Physical Education), Springfield, Mass. 
 
 Pictorial Rev. (Pictorial Review), New York City. 
 
 Playground, 1 Madison Ave., New York City. 
 
 Playground Ass'n of Amer. (Playground and Recrea- 
 tion Association of America, proceedings), 1 Madison Ave., 
 New York City. 
 
 Pub. E. A. of Phila. (Public Education Association of 
 Philadelphia, proceedings), Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Ohio Ed. Mo. (Ohio Educational Monthly). Address 
 Dept. of Education, Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Relig. Ed. (Religious Education), Chicago, 111. 
 
 Rochester Settlement Bui., Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 R. of R's. (Review of Reviews), 30 Irving Place, 
 N. Y. City. 
 
 R. Sage F. (Russell Sage Foundation), 105 E. 22d St., 
 N. Y. City. 
 
 Rural Manhood, 124 E. 28th St., N. Y. City. 
 
 Sch.and Home Ed. (School and Home Education), 
 Bloomington, 111. 
 
 Sch. Jour. (School Journal), E. L. Kellogg & Co., New 
 York City. 
 
 School Progress, Philadelphia, Penn. 
 
82 University of South Carolina Bulletin. 
 
 Soc. Center (The Social Center), 30-32 West 13th St., 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 Soc. Ed. Quarterly (Social Education Quarterly), Boston 
 Normal School, Boston, Mass. 
 
 Southern Workman, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. 
 
 Sower, Christopher Co., 614 Arch St., Philadelphia, Penn. 
 
 Survey (or Charities), 105 E. 22d St., New York City. 
 
 U. S. Dept. of Agri. (United States Department of 
 Agriculture), Washington, D. C. 
 
 Va. Jour, of Ed. (Virginia Journal of Education). 
 Address Dept. of Education, Richmond, Va. 
 
 Vocational Ed. (Vocational Education) , Peoria, 111. 
 
 Western Jour, of Ed. (Western Journal of Education), 
 711 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Wis. Tr's Ass'n (Wisconsin Teachers' Association, 
 proceedings), C. P. Cary, State Supt, Madison, Wis. 
 
 World's Events, Chicago, 111 
 
 World's Work, Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. 
 
 World Today, 67 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. 
 
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