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Show New Social Vision j Taught in Scliool Country 'Up for Grabs,' So CYO Classes Prepare. CHICAGO. Every week night, motley groups of men and women professional people. laborers, white collar workers, housewives ascend the stairs of a building on the fringe of the Loop. They're scholars on their way to a free-style swim in a pool of learning. learn-ing. The Slieil School of Social Studies describes its function in a simple, breezy prospectus. One passage reads: "You will need knowledge to preserve and develop democracy. ... As in all times of crisis, our country is more or less up for grabs. When it comes down, it is important impor-tant that you be there to catch it and to insure its continuity. If you don't catch it, there are those who will the communists, the fascists, the forces of reac'wm. . . . This means that you'.i.iust know thoroughly thor-oughly what demr.'j-y. is, must appreciate ap-preciate fully its '"wi 'n and potentialities." poten-tialities." The school is free. It is open to all Protestants, Catholics, Jews, regardless re-gardless of color or academic background. back-ground. Each class meets once a week for six or eight weeks and courses are scheduled five nights a week. The sessions are informal. No text books are required, but reference refer-ence volumes are recommended and mimeographed material is furnished. fur-nished. The students range in age from 16 to 75 years. Attendance is better than 5,000 a year. The school is one of the newest branches of the ever-spreading CYO. It was opened last year in the busy CYO center at Congress street and Wabash avenue. It of-fers of-fers "free social education to anyone any-one interested in helping to build a better society." |