BROWN A NATURE-STUDY PROJECT 385 



Appreciation of htunan character. Many things may be chosen 

 here. I only suggest one, Whitman's, "When Lilacs Last in the 

 Dooryard Bloomed." 



First Year of High School 



This is the time when the boys are anxious to be up and away 

 from the school-room. I believe that psychology would bear 

 me out in the statement that often literature will serve as a release 

 of enthusiasm which might otherwise be spent in actually leaving 

 school and taking to tramping. That is, I think that if we put 

 into our school work a period of reading in which tramping is 

 the project, we will have ttimed the interest of the boys for the 

 time being, away from leaving school. They will be better 

 satisfied to remain. 



Introduce the study with roaming songs. Horn's, "I've 

 Been Roaming" is one such. Then follow something of the order 

 given. 



London — ^"Call of the Wild." (Excellent background inter- 

 pretation of the year's work.) 



Carman — ^Kinship of Nature. 



Thoreau — ^Essay on "Walking." 



" "Wild Crabs." 



Muir — ^A thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf — (Compare with 

 Audubon's Journal.) 



Burroughs — Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt (A type 

 of sophisticated, convenient, polite tramping in the Yellowstone.) 



Taylor — Byways of Europe (For a bit of the exotic) 



Thoreau — ^A week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers. 

 Develop classical allusions. Use Offenbach's, "Barcarole" for 

 music. Also Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun." Use here also, 

 Emerson, E. W. — "Thoreau as remembered by a Young Friend." 



Knowles — ^Alone in the Wilderness. 



Lindsay— Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. 

 Sociological value of the tramp, and of these various expeditions. 

 Muir's sohtary expedition, and compare with this, the society of 

 Thoreau and his brother on their trip. 



Chapman, John — (Story of his life and work.) 



Gray— Essay on Sequoia (Something of the flavor of the real 

 tramping botanist is caught here.) 



