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Rosenstock-Huessy Fund,Inc.  \nLibrary of CongressCatalog Card Number:77-94974  \nISBN:0-912148-08-X(paper)ISBN:0-912148-07-1(cloth)  \nPrinted by Imperial PrintersHartford,Vermont,United States of America  \nThis book is being distributed by Argo Books in cooperation with The NorwichCenter,a not-for-profit corporation concerned with the future of such volunteerservice activities as are described in this book.The Norwich Center was foundedin 1977 by a group of former members of Camp William James.Persons interestedin this field are invited to write The Norwich Center,Norwich,Vermont 05055.  \nA catalog of the books by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy published by Argo Books maybe obtained by writing Argo Books,Norwich,Vermont 05055.  \nFront cover picture shows Camp William James in Tunbridge,Vermont (the Riversplace):back cover picture shows campers at work,January,1941.  \nSo far as man stands for anything,and is productive ororiginative at all,his entire vital function may be said tohave to deal with maybes.Not a victory is gained,not a deedof faithfulness or courage is done,except upon a maybe;nota service,not a sally of generosity,not a scientific explora-tion or experiment or textbook that may not be a mistake.It is only by risking our persons from one hour to anotherthat we live at all.And often enough our faith beforehand inan uncertified result is the only thing that makes the resultcome true.  \n-William James  \nTwo sons of William James,Alexander and William Jr.,formally givetheir father's name to Camp William James at the dedication cere-monies in Sharon,Vermont on December 14th,1940(see pages 99-101).  \nContents  \nix  \nPreface -1977  \nxi  \nIntroduction -1977  \nxiii  \nForeword -1949  \n1  \n1 Something of William James  \n6  \n2 The First Gilded Youth  \n3 Tenderfeet in Tunbridge25  \n41  \n4 The Rally  \n5 Field Maneuvers in Washington49  \n6 Internal Crises63  \n7 At The White House92  \n8 Signs and Portents103  \n114  \n9 Sharon  \n10 The Battle is Joined138  \n11 Interim Camp157  \n12 Rebirth in Tunbridge169  \n13 The Downward Path183  \n14 Obituary Refused202  \n15 Postscript,1945219  \n# Epilogue\n\n240  \n247  \nFootnotes  \n252  \n# Index\n\nIllustrations  \nvi,xvi,48,168  \nPreface -1977  \nIn the depths of the Great Depression,the New Deal devisedthe Civilian Conservation Corps to put unemployed young mento work on reforestation and conservation projects.Before it wasover,the CCC enrolled three million young Americans in hundredsof \"camps\"around the country,gave them some sense of orderand purpose and,in the process,among many permanently usefulprojects,planted half the trees planted in the United States sincethe beginning of the Republic.The results of that remarkableundertaking have not yet been adequately assessed.  \nEven during the Depression there were many Americans,prominent among them the President's wife,Eleanor Roosevelt,who believed that the CCC should be more than an emergencyrelief program—that every young American should be encour-aged to serve his(and now her)country,much in the spirit ofWilliam James'famous essay,\"The Moral Equivalent of War.”  \nMrs.Roosevelt engaged the interest of her husband and inthe winter of 1940-41 a group of Harvard and Dartmouth students,recently graduated,who had served their apprenticeships in regu-lar CCC camps,came together in Sharon,Vermont,to establishCamp William James,an experimental leadership training campwhose purpose was to explore the means for turning the CCC intoa form of national service.  \nThe sons of William James attended the camp's openingceremonies;his biographer,Ralph Barton Perry,wrote in supportof the enterprise.And articulate leaders as varied as SenatorGeorge Aiken,Stuart Chase,Dorothy Canfield Fisher,RalphFlanders,Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Thompson became  \nclose friends and admirers of the “college boys”and their fellowenrollees from Civilian Conservation Corps camps across thecountry who,together,shared in 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