BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Serial No. 470: General Series, No. 306.
EXTENSION DIVISION
OF
The University of Wisconsin
General Information and Welfare
THE SOCIAL CENTER
A MEANS OF COMMON UNDERSTANDING
An address delivered by Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, before the First National Conference on Civic and Social Center Development, at Madison, Wis., October 25, 1911.
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Published by the University
December, 1911
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THE SOCIAL CENTER
A MEANS OF COMMON UNDERSTANDING
An address delivered by Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, before the First National Conference on Civic and Social Center Development, at Madison, Wis., October 25, 1911.
I do not feel that I have deserved the honor of standing here upon this occasion to make what has been courteously called the principal address, because five months ago I did not know anything about this movement. I have taken no active part in it, and I am not going to assume, as those who have preceded me have assumed, that you know what the movement is. I want, if for no other purpose than to clarify my own thinking, to state as briefly as possible, what the movement is.
The object of the movement is to make the schoolhouse the civic center of the community, at any rate in such communities as are supplied with no other place of common resort.