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HERE are two ways to spend the summer. Tanning your hide or titivating your intellect.

Increasingly it is becoming possible even for persons with thin pocketbooks to indulge in the best features of both; to be Da Vincis and Neanderthalers at the same time; to combine the alluring enjoyments of grand mountains and great symphonies. In short, to soak up sunlight and enlightenment during the same vacation.

Millions of Americans have gone and still go native for a few weeks each summer, matching wits with fishes and enjoying similar Pliocene pleasures. More and more of them, however, are blending the physical joys of a Cape Cod beach in the morning and the cultural pleasures of good theater in Cape Cod Playhouse at night; climbing the steep paths of Yosemite by day and listening to a concert in camp at night; seeking both tennis courts and credit courses in summer school.

When John Citizen left his desk or shop he used to put everything citified behind him. Now he and his wife are discovering that the good things of civilization are not incompatible with summer recreation.

To serve these Americans with new ideas about summer vacation this issue of SCHOOL LIFE is devoted to Summer Edu

Where is a list of summer schools?

Part III of the Educational Directory, Office of Education Bulletin, 1934, No. 1 (price 5 cents), lists summer school directors. In this issue is a summary of novel summer school features reported to the Office of Education.

Where can one find information on organized summer camps? Best source:

Handbook of Summer Camps, Porter Sargent. Inquire also at your nearest Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Y.M.H.A., Boy Scout, Girl Scout, and Campfire Girls headquarters. For information on western ranches, "Ask Mr. Foster." American Automobile Association officers can supply information on tourist camps. New England Council, Statler Building, Boston. State Publicity Departments.

Summer dramatic schools and theaters? Best source: THE STAGE magazine. Summer art schools and colonies?

The American Federation of Arts is now

"Educational" in its broadest sense in the belief that a trip to Glacier National Park may be just as educational as a summer course at the University of Chicago.

Our guidebook will be divided into two parts: First, major sources of information on summer educational and cultural opportunities; second, novel features offered by college and university summer schools.

This guide will not be nearly as good as it should be. This is not our fault. Many fields of interesting summer opportunities are so new that no organized center of information has been created. Many people tell us that it would be fine to have an ample, thorough-going guide to summer educational and cultural opportunities. Perhaps the Office of Education or some other agency can create this service. Here are the questions individuals who want to spend their summers profitably ask and the best answers we have been able to find.

Journal.

The list of colleges and universities offering art courses in "Guidance

Leaflets-Art", Office of Education Leaflet No. 20 (price 5 cents), can be checked against the summer school list (see directory referred to above). See also Art Digest, "newspaper" of the art world and American Art Annual, 1933, vol. XXX, recently issued.

Summer music opportunities?

There is much activity in this field, for example, the Orchestra Camp at Interlochen, Mich.; opera in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati; stadium concerts in New York, but few good information sources. Probably the best source for Eastern United States, Sunday New York Times.

Information on organized tours?

Ask Mr. Foster, service in 70 cities. Greyhound Bus Lines. Steamship companies and railroads.

Special fairs and exhibits?

Inquire Thomas Cook & Sons, 587 Fifth Avenue, New York City. See also April 7 issue, Scholastic.

Summer resorts?

Publicity departments of the States are often good sources of information, particu

ness. Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Minnesota have excellent booklets. Other sources: New England Hotel Association, Boston; Southern California Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles; New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., New England Council, Boston.

Summer opportunities on public reservations?

This is National Parks Year. Low railroad rates and adverse exchange rates in Europe add to the already strong appeal of our national parks, not only as places to visit but places in which to spend summer vacations. National parks are not all in the West, either. For information write to the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

National forests with an area equal to all Germany, vie with national parks as hosts to millions of Americans in summer. For information on camping opportunities in national forests write Forest Service, Department of Agriculture in Washington.

State parks are growing in number and popularity. They are shown on the useful map, Recreation Areas in the United States, available free from the National Park Service.

How to get to specific places?

Ask Mr. Foster. Thomas Cook & Sons, 587 Fifth Avenue, New York City. In Canada: Canadian Pacific Railroad or Canadian National Railroad, Montreal or other offices. State publicity bureaus. For bus travel, Russell's National Motor Coach Guide. L. H. Ristow, traffic manager, Greyhound Management Co., East Nineteenth and Superior Streets, Cleveland, Ohio; American Automobile Association for members, 750 offices; also Automobile Club of Southern California and Keystone Automobile Club, Pennsylvania. Quebec: Provincial Tourist Bureau, Department of Highways and Mines. Nova Scotia and New Brinswick: Department of Highways, Eastern Steamship Lines, Pier 18, North River.

for loan; American Automobile Association tour books for various sections of United States.

Ask Mr. Foster Travel Service. Supplies without charge or fee accurate and definite information concerning all details of travel anywhere in the world. This service, available in 70 cities, will plan itineraries; give information on character, situation, and rates of hotels; supply

VACATION outings in a moun

tain camp for about $1.50 per day per person! This unique opportunity has been provided by the joint efforts of the United States Forest Service and California cities. Fifteen recreation camps in national forests are now operated by the municipalities to provide enjoyable summer vacations at cost for taxpayers.

Los Angeles pioneered this vacation service. It has been followed by Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Stockton, Sacramento, Riverside, and Los Angeles County.

Vacationing taxpayers are housed in attractive, well-ventilated cabins or tent-houses and are furnished with individual iron cots and mattresses. Each camp has stores and libraries. Trained camp directors arrange hiking trips, instruction in swimming in the pool and in other athletics, and conduct the evening camp-fire entertainments.

folders, maps, schedules of cruises, tours, and resorts and travel everywhere; purchase tickets, make transportation, and hotel reservations; supply information on road conditions, inns, and garages; provide information and catalogs concerning schools and summer and winter camps. This service operates no transportation or hotel services and accepts no commissions from hotels or other travel interests.

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This is one example of the growing use of national forests for summer vacation. Farther north in Washington and Oregon, sites for summer homes have been leased to hundreds of citizens. Although west coast Americans to have discovered recreational opportunities in the national forests, these reservations are by no means limited to the West. They are widely distributed. See folder, "Vacation in the National Forests" (free from the United States Forest Service). Informational map folders on many of the individual national forests are also available. Mimeograph copies of "Camping hints" and "Camp cookery" may be obtained from the Forest Service.

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many thousands of persons will answer during the next few weeks.

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if the decision is in the affirmative, an idea of what some of the colleges and universities are offering should be interesting and helpful.

Does summer study mean all hard work and no play, or have our institutions of higher learning considered the fact that June, July, and August provide not only an opportunity for further study, but also a time for outings, camps, tours-in general, vacations?

A quick review of 1934 summer session courses, offered by more than 150 colleges and universities, reveals that many institutions have given serious thought to this problem. Many have made definite plans to link their learning to leisure this year more than ever before to give greater attention to recreating physically as well as mentally and morally.

For example, how would you like to take the course, "Education for Enjoyment", high up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains? All departments of Fresno State Teachers College, Fresno, Calif., will collaborate to supply students with all of the cultural, recreational, and appreciative advantages which their fields can offer.

Or probably you would like to go to the Orient on a 2-months' trip arranged by the University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. You don't have much time to decide and prepare because the President Johnson sails on June 23.

Before telling about more of the travel trips, excursions, summer camps, institutes, and other unique educational opportunities bearing attractive labels, we might suggest that no matter what your interest, some college or university this summer should be able to satisfy your educational desires.

Colleges are endeavoring to gear their educational machinery these days to needs of twentieth century society. They provide courses not only for teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and dentists, but also for coal miners, ministers, firemen, meat packers, janitors, athletic coaches, and cotton buyers. There are studies in college for farmers, writers, nurses, artists,

musicians, parents, librarians, historians, scientists, geographers, and even gold prospectors.

It would be an impossible task to mention all courses offered, but briefly we

report, under a minimum of classifica

tions, a few of the vast number of novel features announced by a limited number of institutions.

TRIPS AND CAMPS

There will be much education by travel and à la camp this summer, if the number of travel and camp courses offered is a reliable indication. Morehead State Teachers College, Morehead, Ky., is sponsoring a visit to cities in the eastern United States, including Chicago and the Century of Progress, July 20 to August 11, and in July and August the University of New Mexico conducts a tour of archeological sites in Mexico or Central America.

Can you imagine taking a travel course in psychology? The University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., offers such a course this summer. And if you are convenient to the University of Pittsburgh you can register for its historical tour of western Pennsylvania.

Probably the only travel course to operate entirely within the bounds of one State is that of "Montana Environment", arranged by Eastern Montana Normal School, Billings, Mont., "to furnish a cheap course full of educational advantages." Colorado State Teachers College, Greeley, Colo., will again have field trips in science; Western Reserve will have one in natural science to the Pacific Northwest, and one in Ohio history and geography. Announcement of excursion and study trips to the sand dunes of San Luis Valley, to the top of Mount Blanca, and to Pueblo Indian territories, has been made by Adams State Teachers College, Alamosa, Colo.

Or you can pack up your bag and join the tour arranged for you by Clark University, Worcester, Mass., to the Appalachian Highlands, August 11-24. An 8week field trip to the chief ports and regions of the Mediterranean is also on Clark University's July and August schedule. Northwestern University, in Chicago, will take advantage of its proximity to the Century of Progress Exposition to allow student study of its educational resources.

Oberlin College's camping trip will be by automobile from Oberlin, Ohio, to

Yellowstone, Glacier, Mount Rainier, and to the giant coast forest. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., is planning to have a forest school camp 10 miles west of Bogalusa, La.

Columbia University's zoology class will study at Woods Hole, Mass., and the engineering and surveying students will journey to Camp Columbia, near Litchfield, Conn. Columbia also directs a field trip for the study of geography in New York and the New England area. Penn State College, State College, Pa., will sponsor another summer nature camp, and Indiana University is already registering students for its thirty-eighth year of biology research at Winona Lake, Ind. Other students interested in surveying may also be interested in knowing of the University of Wisconsin surveying camp. It will be located for 6 weeks at Devils Lake State Park, 40 miles from Madison. Science teachers may wish to take courses in botany, geology, and zoology at the University of Wyoming camp in Medicine. Bow Mountains, 40 miles west of Laramie.

Student tourists will be accommodated at the University of North Dakota auto camp at University, N. Dak., this summer, and if you want to study in novel style, you might consider enrolling in the same university's camp depression, which provides bunking and study facilities in six railroad cabooses.

Field courses in geology and geography will be conducted for the fifteenth season by the University of Kentucky, June 19July 28; in botany, physiology, and zoology at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, Calif., by Stanford University; and in biology, botany, and zoology by the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Mich., June 25-August 18. Three field courses will be offered also by the University of Chicago at Sainte Genevieve County, Mo., Devils Lake, Wis., and Sioux Lookout, Ontario.

Biology teachers and students living in the South are invited to study at the University of Virginia's Mountain Lake Biological Station in Giles County, Va., 4,000 feet above sea level, this summer. Northwestern's field courses in the Lake Superior region begin August 10. Featuring the University of Denver's botany offerings will be three all-day field trips and one or two half-day trips each week. The university's camp is in the Rocky Mountain National Park. And if you wish to combine geology, geography, and historical science study with recreation, at a high mountain altitude, you can join the University of Colorado's excursions from June 18 to August 24.

The University of Pittsburgh offers instruction in advanced and research

courses of biology at its lake laboratory, Presque Isle, near Erie, Pa. Zoological research will be conducted at the seventh session of University of New Hampshire's marine zoological laboratories on the Isle of Shoals, 10 miles from Portsmouth, N.H. Delightful trips for botany and geology study are also scheduled through the Black Hills and Rocky Mountains by the University of Nebraska, June 10July 20. Harvard's field courses in geology will be in central New Mexico, June 27-August 7, and Augustana College and Theological Seminary at Rock Island, Ill., will again offer geology as a major subject.

"To guide the student in personal observations in the field, in studies in the labor

atory, and in reading, with a view to enabling him or her to develop powers of observation, thought, and judgment", Allegany School of Natural History in Allegany State Park, Quaker Bridge, N. Y. will open for the eighth season, the day after the Fourth of July.

As usual this year, Woods Hole, Mass., laboratories will promote research in marine zoology, protozology, embryology, physiology, and botany. Sixty-five universities subscribe to this research.

MUSIC

One week of grand opera, with wellknown grand opera artists participating, is on the schedule for University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. Smith College, Northampton, Mass., will feature a special study of the symphony this year, in connection with its summer school of Claremont music, June 25-August 3. Colleges will instruct in liturgies, boy

voice training, and ministry of music, June 25-August 3, in Pomona College, Calif. Two nights each week a concert course is also offered.

Laboratories for training high-school students and music supervisors in music training and conducting are the University of Nebraska all-State high-school orchestra, band, and chorus, June 12-July 8. The University of Michigan school of music convenes June 25-August 17. Daily rehearsals in chorus, orchestra, and band are announced by the State University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Music courses at all levels are offered by Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., and band leadership under the direction of A. R. McAllister, Joliet, Ill., may be obtained at Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, Utah. Milwaukee State Teachers College and Miami University School of Education, Oxford, Ohio, also have arranged for chorus and orchestra sessions.

Teachers of music also can get fully accredited courses from June 12 to July 22 at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., and Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., furnishes training in chorus practice and conducting, orchestration, appreciation, methods, and practice teaching. Peabody Conservatory of Music summer session is from June 18 to July 28, at Baltimore, Md.

Joseph E. Maddy again will direct the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., and the Eastern Music Camp at Oakland, Maine, will be held. Summer music courses have been announced as usual by New York University; Columbia University; American Institute of Normal Methods, Auburndale, Mass.; Juilliard