He has noted with deepest satisfaction indeed that your meetings
have been well attended this year, and that the programme had been made as
varied and interesting as possible, and combined, as every Bahá'í Summer School
should, the threefold features of devotion, study and recreation. Only through
such a harmonious combination of these three elements can the institution of
the Summer School yield the maximum of beneficent results, and fulfil its true
function of deepening the knowledge, stimulating the zeal, and fostering the
spirit of fellowship among the believers in every Bahá'í community.
(From a
letter dated 15 August 1938 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the Central
States Summer School; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Centers of
Baha’i Learning)
