HSTR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pope Manufacturing Company, Albert Augustus Pope, Public Schools Athletic League
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It was hard for the intercity poors to get to such places, that"s why he wanted them not to be too far away. Middle and upper classes did not want to share those places. Working class wants more smaller parks in their neighborhood. Luther gulick, the evolutionoray theory of play and the public schools athletic. People advocating small parks, more generally accessible to urban working class. Social reformers had social control objectives in mind. Team sports were just a thing that the urban youth needed. > under supervision of adults, teach them baseball, so that they learn teamwork, discipline, hard work analog to hanging around on the street corners. In boston, boston playground association, 1892/93, 2780$ spend only. One of big problems of america: decline of family unions. Luther gulick: the transmission of morals is no longer safe in the family because the activities out of which morals arrive have been away by urbanasation and industrialization .