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Identifier: chicagohistory03curr (find matches)
Title: Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: Chicago S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ue to the fact that the people in charge of themwere not trained teachers, but were struggling lawyers, doctors, clerks and book-keepers, who were burdened with the intensity of commercial life during the day,and whose interest in the schools was transient. In the last few years the holdersof evening school teaching certificates are placed on the same footing as the teach-ers in the day schools, which limits the choice of evening school teachers largelyto the day school teachers, but insures the best available talent for the work. The present total enrollment in the evening schools of Chicago is about 20,000.Sessions are held four evenings a week in various public schools as centers through-out the city, for a period of four months every year. The department is in chargeof one nt the district superintendents. RECREATION CENTERS Distinct in aim from the evening schools are the recreation centers which havebeen established recently, to be open during a large part of the school year. The
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CHICAGO: ITS HISTORY AND ITS BUILDERS ;>:, first one was opened in 1909. and later provision was made by the board of edu-cation for the establishment and maintenance of recreation centers in differentparts of the city. The principal, Miss Azile B. Reynolds, gave her time to thecenter, and money for equipment and for the employment of assistants was pri-vately furnished. The Juvenile Protective League co-operated both financially andsocially toward the success of the center. Library facilities, gymnastics, sewing,lectures, social dancing and music were offered to those who attended. The dis-tinctive gain has not been so much what was learned as in the social and moralconditions that were made attractive, and that tended to draw the young peoplefrom the more dangerous class of amusements which they were likely to frequent. VACATION SCHOOLS One of the most beneficent and wisely conducted charities of the city are thevacation schools, wrote Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews in 1899, when he was

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