excursions, organize games, etc., but avoid all direct teaching and book work
generally. This writer thinks such an institution would soon result in a marked
increase of public morality and an augmented demand for technical instruction,
and that for the advisers themselves the work would be the best training for high
positions in politics and reform. Clubs of boys from eight to sixteen or eighteen
must not admit age disparities of more than two years.]
[Footnote 31: See Young People's Societies, by L.W. Bacon. D. Appleton and
Co., New York, 1900, p. 265. Also, F.G. Cressey: The Church and Young Men.
Fleming H. Revell Co., New York, 1903, p. 233.]