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...three new instructors of the Division are Joseph Lee '83, formerly a member of the Boston School Committee, and president of the Playground Association of America; George Ellsworth Johnson, former superintendent of schools of Andover and of Tewksbury and a member of the International Congress of School Hygiene; and John Marks Brewer...
...Companion and the author of a dozen or more boys' books. He has also written the "Story of Harvard," a work which traces the growth of the University from its beginning to the present day. Joseph Lee, vice-president of the Massachusetts Civic League, and president of the Playground Association of America, will lecture on Education. Mr. Lee, who has served for many years on the Boston School Committee, has been instrumental in securing much social legislation, particularly laws promoting playgrounds. FitzRoy Carrington, who will lecture on the History of Engraving, is the editor of the Print Collector's Quarterly...
...offered by the Department of University Extension, the State Board of Education, and the Old South Association, at the Old South Meeting House, coiner of Washington and Milk streets, Boston, will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The speakers will be Joseph Lee '83, president of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, who will talk on "Education Through Recreation," and H. H. Wheaton, specialist in Immigrant Education, United States Bureau of Education, who will speak on "Standards and Methods in the Education of Immigrants." The conference is open free of charge to anyone interested in settlement work...
April 10.--"Education Through Recreation," by Joseph Lee, President of the Playground and Recreation Association of America...
...life, namely: wherever there is real need, we should work to satisfy that need. He said he thought that Boston needed good music. Accordingly, in 1881, he established the Symphony Orchestra. He applied the same principle in the case of his University. In 1890, he thought Harvard needed a playground: the result was Soldiers Field. In 1900, he believed he saw the need of a centre for university life: the result was the Union. With the same spirit the Corporation acquired and built up the present great Medical School...