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izations were represented.” The four institutions now are coeducational,
although all originally were started for women.

to another. Migratory labor is represented in the Pacific Coast School; and
the Southern institution began to admit agricultural workers in 1937. The
majority in the Southern Summer School have had the backgrounds of farm-
ing people, even though they have come from factories and mills. Many
were born on farms and are the first or second generation of workers in
industry.” One hundred percent Americans, in the best sense of that phrase,
many live in the same State where their fathers were born. The absence of
Negro students indicates one way in which the Southern School is limited by
the region in which it operates. The Office Workers School has urban,
native-born students for the most part.

The members of the Wisconsin and Pacific Coast Schools have attained
various educational levels, representing a cross-section of the American popu-
lation. The students of the Southern Summer School and of the School for
Office Workers, however, differ. Small Southern rural schools have given
many Southern workers limited preparation. In the Office Workers’ institu-
tion, on the other hand, individuals have had extensive education but they
have less understanding of economic processes.

The School for Office Workers and the Southern School are held on no
specific campus as are the others. The latter started as a transient organization
so that it might recruit from different Southern States. The former at present
likes to maintain a Middle-west situation since it recruits nationally, being
the only institution for the white-collar group in the country. By 1934, how-
ever, the Southern School decided that mobility did not favor uniform facili-
ties from session to session, and two years later, when facing a second decade
of existence, the School announced that a permanent location would be sought
and a committee has been striving towards this end.

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The four programs have shown a realization that workers cannot stay away
from jobs for too long a time and that their funds are limited. The School for

™ Reports of the Director of the Southern Summer School for Workers, 1927 and
1936 (mimeographed by the School).

"1. L. McLaren, “Summer Schools for Workers in Industry,” Progressive Education,
Vol. 9 (November, 1932), p. 503.

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