Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Department of Playgrounds of the District of Columbia: For the Year Ended June 30, 1925 If a child learns more in the first six years of its life, the time when the main business of life is play, than he does in all the years that come after, it follows that when play is no longer the most vital thing it still is the one activity in which the whole child takes part, and we consider it of great importance to the child's welfare. The time is not far off, we hope, when a playground will be provided for each neighborhood as are public schools; that is, a playground for every child, not for the occasional child. The health, happiness, and well-being of the average child depends on the foresight which the city uses in providing a well organized and adequate play system. The work in the past year on playgrounds has been especially energetic and full of spirit. In addition to the 25 municipal play grounds already in Operation, 40 school playgrounds, 5 play stations, and 2 camps were opened under the supervision of the commissioners during the summer vacation. The camps, only a little distance out, one in the Glover Park tract and one in Eureka Park at Barry farms, were used as destinations for all-day hikes and picnic parties, one playground at a time. Our schedule of activities has become more definitely established and was better arranged this year than ever before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.