average we shall proceed by describing a typical week of a twelve-year-old boy in concrete fashion. We recognize, of course, that no individual boy will actually fit the synthetic picture, from the standpoint of either the particular, or the diversity of, activities included in the synthesis. On school days our synthetic twelve-year-old gets up about seven or seven-thirty in the morning. He may read, practice his music, or play outside for a while before breakfast. He walks to school, unless he is one of the few who attend high school, when it may be necessary for him to ride. He usually walks with one or more of his boy friends who live near him. At recess he probably plays whatever athletic game is seasonal or some more informal type of game. He walks home at noon, hastily eats, and either reads for a little while, or hurries back to school, generally to get in a half hour of active physical play before classes begin again. After school the activities of our synthetic boy are so diverse that they are hard to put together. About half of the boys play until the evening meal. About twenty-five per cent of them do some kind of remunerative work, delivering newspapers being the most common. Many of the boys spend this time in taking or practicing music lessons, reading, working on some hobby, or just fooling around. After the evening meal with the family there is likely to be another period of play out-of-doors, either of the seasonal variety of sport, or of such informal games as chase, tag, and hide. The rest of the evening is usually spent at home, reading books, newspapers or magazines, or in some form of entertainment, as listening to the radio. Little time is spent on school work at home. Forty per cent of the boys report no time at all spent on home study, but a few average nearly an hour a day. This is less a matter of age, of course, than of the requirements set by the boy's particular grade in school. A small per cent of the boys attend movies occasionally through the week, but for the majority Saturday or Sunday are the movie days. Two-thirds of the boys belong to some type of club for boys, Scouts, Church, or Y.M.C.A. For them, there is one evening meeting a week, more often on Friday than any other night. We may interject here that two years later, only 25 per cent of these same boys report any club activities whatever in their week's schedule. Bed comes anywhere from nine to ten o'clock. The week-end program, on Saturdays and Sundays, varies greatly with the boys. Saturday morning typically seems to include a later sleep than usual, whatever chores or errands are to be done, and a little time for play or reading. In the afternoon, more play with the fellows, perhaps a movie, visiting back and forth with friends, some work on achievement tests for Scouts, or perhaps a hike or other activity with the troop or club. Saturday evening may bring a car ride with the family, or a This content downloaded from 40.77.167.32 on Sun, 31 Jul 2016 05:06:23 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms