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entire day to themselves. Also during the hot 

 weather in the middle of the summer they have 

 from three days to a week for some special outing. 

 Last summer they camped out five days with some 

 other good boys. It is my theory that the boys who 

 are given such vacations will do more work and do it 

 better than those who are not." 



The foregoing plan may seem to sacrifice the inter- 

 ests of the work, but in fact it really does not. After 

 all, it is merely a question of the right point of view. 

 Is the boy for the sake of the work, or the work for 

 the sake of the boy ? Answer the question con- 

 scientiously for yourself, dear reader. And may the 

 boy be forever the gainer ! 



A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF HOURS 



Obedience may be regarded as a pre-requisite 

 for successful boy training. So, the first light 

 tasks required of the small lad will be intended as 

 merely a means of training him to obey and to feel 

 the meaning of responsibility. No one has thus 

 far seemed to think it worth while to attempt 

 to prescribe for the work and play of children. How 

 different in the case of the school requirements ! 

 Even in the district schools the thing is reduced 

 to a system both the quantity and the quality of 

 the work necessary for each age and grade are care- 

 fully scheduled. Now, why not the same forethought 

 in planning the necessary amount of the other 



