11/01/37 He reported:
Readings re [
1437] Hall
MAY 29, 1937 - [165-22]:
Set ideal within self. Courage, to carry on in what is of
the better or the divine within. Become equipped. BEGIN.
Prayerful, meditative. By word of mouth, advertising,
contacting those who know the needs. Surround self with
those qualified. MORE than the entity & couple of helpers
could handle.
Interest those affiliated with Reilly, esp. theater, cinema.
(Riley, Powers, Nilssen, Goetz,) Make the better peace
within self. [Harold J. Reilly - Harry M. Goetz.]
JUNE 17, 1937 - [165-23]:
Boys 13 to 18. Backward boys and afflicted or in many such
conditions. Gain support of this thinking along these
lines. (Boy Consv. Bureau, Children's Village, Scouts, Big
Bros. Y.M.C.A., Hebrew Y, 6th Police Comm., Juv. Judges,
Children's Bureaus, Columbia Publishers, Bureau Priv
Schools, Prin. High Schools,) Seagrave - Seabury. DuPont.
President. Readings a part of Prog for Vocational Guidance,
as well as aid for the backward and defective. Location
MERNER or Reilly. Work in either place. Industries. (Ref.
Cases for poor, hand machine, mech toys, Chef, Weaving, Furn
Dec., Aquaculture, Map Making, Rebuilding Construction.,
Fireplace fuel, Pt Vsh Lacq,) SET THIS UP and it will pay
expenses and more. Go direct to institutions first, then
individuals, Seabury, DuPont, Pres. back to [
165].
JUNE 28, 1937 - [165-24]:
COMMENCE. Basis on spiritual law. Humbleness, Courage.
Among those who are faulty are geniuses in some fields, Hence
the stress on VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE. Then Seabury, DuPont,
Pres. back to [
165]. From within-in communion with the God-
force. Do FIRST things FIRST. First is Self. Willingness
to give & Suffer for an ideal. Courage - the dare to do the
impossible. Direct approach to Seabury.
AUGUST 26, 1937 - [165-25]:
There have been some bad decisions but no condemnation of
activities KEEP AT IT. Not the most plausible but [
317]
be with school first year. None better for next season.
KEEP AT IT.
11/01/37:
Status Nov. 1. School operating. One student paying $50
month. Advice with one exception followed - Prof. [
317] is
on the job. His own decision in the matter, he was out of
a job. One boy from Boston proved to be a periodic maniac,
writer has a broken rib and loose teeth from this. Sent boy
home. We have many boys we can get but none who can finance
themselves. We are now campaigning in many places for funds
for scholarships. Have written Members of Ass'n and talked
with several hoping one boy could be financed, only Mr.
Goetz subscribed ($100) and his not payable unless $500 more
subscribed. We can meet expenses with 3 boys more. Without
them we are doomed to end the school at Christmas time.
We are advertising in Times and Newark News. Are
visiting officials of New Jersey cities, contacting
wealthy men for funds, prosecuting work on Beauty Parlor
Machine to help finance, subscribing on student service
from Nat'l Bureau., promised overflow students from
Columbia (none yet), trying to get local day students,
offering pay night courses in Spanish for residents to
interest them & help finance. Will approach Seabury
again after election. If Clees wins in N.J. it will
help.
11/01/37 He submitted various sample fliers on school:
PROBLEM BOYS are the rule an not the exception. A Problem
Boy is one who is an individualist and who fails to conform
in one way or another to the mass methods of education in
common use.
Actually it is not the boy in most cases who is the problem.
It is the educational processes in common use. There are no
problem boys and there is no problem education where the
latter is made to conform to the needs of the former.
More than that - it has been found that 70% of the so-called
Problem Boys are so because of bad home conditions rather
than due to irregularities within themselves.
Here is a list of types of So-Called Problem Boys:
Those who do not respect property ownership.
Those who are snobbish. Having a false sense
of superiority.
Those who are diffident, hiding themselves away.
Those who disregard authority.
Those who, needing it, have been denied hand work.
Those with minds dwelling on abnormalities.
Those dwelling on wild ideas of government and society.
Boys having poverty complexes.
Boys who have been too much catered-to.
Boys who need partnership in their homes.
Boys off balance physically.
Tedious boys.
Swift boys.
Geniuses.
Lazy-bones.
Victims of habit-alcohol, sex, dime novels, etc.
Those are not problems if taken in time and by the right
methods. They are routine actors on our stage. Each one
requires drill and applause, his proper cue and proper
attitude on the part of his fellow actors. Cast him in his
proper part, do a little publicity work, and the box office
will show a profit.
Develop a pleasing personality, strong and well directioned.
Give him the training that will enable him to form accurate
and rapid judgements from available information.
Get him to demand life to be lived in the presence of
preferable knowledge and preferable things.
Give him love for work to be carried through to completion
in those cases where the task is an essential one.
Let him safeguard his body that it be an instrument of
sanity and strength.
Give him love for his fellow men and his creator.
Give him knowledge of strength through contemplation.
Then there will be no problems of any sort.
Vocation School of [
1437] Hall recognizes all this and its
program is based on its needs and each boy of each class is
being led into its way of success.
11/01/37 He submitted various sample fliers on school:
HOW TO LIVE IN OUR BODIES
There was a man who unconsciously accepted aching feet as a
necessity and was amazed to learn this handicap of pain and
nerve-tension, while affecting 90% of the adults of the
world, was not shared by the other ten percent. More than
that he was amazed to find out that such a handicap was
unnecessary in his case and in most cases. He found the
answer in listening to one of our camp-fire talks on Feet. A
little instruction enabled him to know the facts. His
entire life was revolutionized. His remarks were
enlightening when he visited the school again: "It took only
an hour - and to think I studied latin for six years".
We have only one body. Let's make the most of it that it
be a willing and cheerful servant of our minds and spirits.
One item at a time is forcibly brought home to each boy.
From feet to hair on his head, he is taught to know the
rules of health and the reasons for them. And he comes to
know the sheer joy that only come from perfect and continued
health.
He gets to be in demand because of clean hands, glossy hair,
shining skin, legs that bear him swiftly, eyes that are
glowing with the health of body and mind. The
self-consciousness that comes from having to hide hands, to
apologise for blotches and blemishes, is all done away with.
Honest pride in mind, body and spirit becomes the ladder
for mounting to a high place among men.
We have 365 lessons in the habits of living, physical and
mental. One for each day. Each is simple and easy. Each
becomes of great interest as the results of mastery become
evident. When a boy has buttoned his belt around the 365 he
has mastered the secret of life itself. He becomes a man
among men, when they become an instinctive part of his daily
living.
Our [
1437] Hall "Calendar for Fathers and Sons" is a daily
guide into the mysteries of little things that make up a
great life and living. And in its daily use is the mystery
that binds together fathers and sons in complete
understanding.
11/01/37 He submitted various sample fliers on school:
"Training is INTENSIVE and contacts are INDIVIDUAL at
Vocation School of [
1437] Hall.
"At Vocation School of [
1437] Hall the statement that our
"training is intensive and our contacts individual" is not
merely repeating a well learned phrase.
"There are actually more adults in proportion to boys than
in any other school as far as we know. We believe in the
old advice to a boy seeking education: 'Seek out a mature
friend who is living a successful life, and beguile him
into taking over your training as a doctor would take over
a patient. Man to man, brain to brain, heart to heart,
become grounded in the things that make his life a success.'
Our teachers are successful men, and they become mentors to
the boys in just that way. They can do this because they
have time to do it and then because it is a great urge
in their lives.
"By reason of the procedure here indicated, we are able to
determine in a practical way as well as theoretically by
psycho-analytical methods what field in life the individual
boy should dwell in. And we are able to train him to dwell
there in a state of growth, and success and happiness. We
insist that the success shall be financial as well as
social, political and religious.
"The 'intensive training and individual contacts' in our
school mean NO percentage of failures. If one boy lags
behind another, he does not even realize it. He goes on
about the even tenor of his somewhat slower way. He
finishes that particular project a little later, but never
fails in it. And it is sometimes the last one to finish who
goes the farthest.
"Mass education as commonly practiced cannot do justice
either by the faster boy or the slower. In one case interest
cannot be maintained and in the other failure is assured
form the beginning. In neither case can originality and
spontaneity and sane imaginative faculties be developed.
At [
1437] Hall the development of a logical and active
imagginative faculty is bound to result and in every case.
11/01/37 He submitted various sample fliers on school:
A day at [
1437] Hall.
[
1437] Hall is a small school. It can never be large. When
more students want to be with us a new unit must be formed.
The group making up the student body must be a mixed one.
One of means, one without, one strong physically, one with
a bruise. The mingling is a leaven of worth.
After water in abundance has made faces shining and bodies
glowing, we stand and sing our song of thankfulness for the
blessings given by a kind of creator.
The breakfast prepared by our budding chefs very tasty, but
conforming to the laws of chemistry and health, is properly
eaten. A happy conversation is the accompanying appetizer.
The lessons of the morning are given as best for each boy.
The present idea seems to be that the underlying subjects
come first. For example the chemistry of cooking preceeds
the actual demonstrations. The draughtsmanship in the newly
designed ice-box comes ahead of the actual construction.
So goes the day until play time. Ping Pong is year-round
joy and skill. We make the table, the bats and - yes - the
balls. In warm weather are tennis and swimming. In cold are
skating and skiing and ice-boating. The proper form and the
needed sportmanship are equally studied.
Meals-games discussion-reading-writing-and finally campfire.
There is the keynote of the day and the getting together and
the straightening out of all matters.
Then good night and honest sleep.
11/07/37 He submitted the following flier on school:
Vocation School -
Nov. 7, 1937
"How fare American Youth?" is the subject of the report of
the American Council on Education. It is based on complete
findings in 15 states of survey and censuses. It says:
"A major problem in the welfare of our youth is in the broad
gap between school and the first job. We invest large sums
in fitting youth for life and then when the job is judged
to be tolerably complete we release them to shift for them-
selves. The results are that a large number becomes
shiftless. When they get jobs the wages of youth are too
small, and the proportion of youth that works for no pay at
all is suprisedly large. These things result in
dissatisfaction. Normal family life is delayed with
attending bad results. One good method of cure would be to
raise the compulsory age limit for attendance on school. Add
to that better vocational courses."
The above report was prepared under the guidance of such men
as Newton D. Baker and Owen D. Young of the American Youth
Commission.
The Program of the Vocation School of [
1437] Hall answers
the above completely. It offers a program that if followed
will within the confines of its own student group avoid
those unpleasant and dangerous situations.
How does it do this?
By first finding out by every known means of analysis the
tendencies of the individual student. Then adding to that
method of trying each endeavor that shows promise of fitting
the individual. Finally by training the student in that
which proves best fit him, and train him so that he becomes
commercially productive before he leaves school. The fact
of his leaving school is sure proof that he is earning money
in a vocation that is to his taste and which he can excel to
the greatest possible extent. The concomitants of Interest,
an Personality are made to march along with the chosen
vocation. Health is understood and practiced - health of
mind, spirit and body. A definite practice training of
satisfactory human relations completes the picture.
11/08/37 Mr. [
165] was present for Rdg.
165-26 on the school.
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