INTEREST IN GAMES.
ARE THERE DANGERS? “ Modern education has enlarged, as it was designed to enlarge, the ordinary man’s capacity for interest. Interest in games is only one of many new interests. The mid-Victorian, emlployer or workman, had very little interest outside the narrow sphere of his work. (AH work and no play certainly make them very dull boys. The Georgian employer plays golf, whilst his workman goes to see Aston Villa. Both are brighter—and we see no sign that they are less efficient. No doubt there are dhngers in the widened interests—dangers of dissipation of thought and effort. But are these dangers to-day actual or only potential? Is either employer or workman the worse man? Certainly the fact that people take amusement seriously is not in itself a lad thing. For our part we prefer the gentleman who gets worried over our athletic defeats.” — Birmingham Post.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 127, 8 April 1926, Page 8
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