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Lieutenant General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is a man of 69, with upright carriage and snapping eye, such as become a veteran who has campaigned in Zululand, Ashanti, Matabeleland, at Mafeking, in the Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...
...meeting was in Washington, and 2,500 Boy Scout officials and 2,000 scouts were assembled. In large part Sir Robert Baden-Powell was responsible for the meeting. Although Dan Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone and Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians antedated the boy scout organizations, it was the Boy Scout Organization founded in England by Sir Robert which became the prototype of the Boy Scouts of America, which the Beard and Seton organizations formed by amalgamation. Amid a storm of pacifist ridicule, Baden-Powell started the organization in England. He first won the approval of Lord Roberts...
...same evening a new award, the Silver Buffalo, was created? "for distinguished service to boyhood." The first recipient was Sir Robert Baden-Powell. It was also conferred on 20 others, some of them dead, who have given their services unstintedly to the Scout movement. Hereafter this medal will be awarded to not more than five men annually...
Later in the week the President paid an official visit to Karlsruhe and was greeted by high dignitaries of the Baden Government, including Premier Hellpach. Amid cheering throngs von Hindenburg was whisked by motor to a state luncheon. Rising to acknowledge a toast, he recalled to his hearers "those happy years which I spent as a division commander with headquarters at Karlsruhe...
...nomination of Prof. Einstein, Prof. Schultze-Gavernitz of Freiburg University, Baden, was appointed Chief of the Secton of Sciences at the Institute. He thus became the first German to hold a position under the League. A number of other appointments were made...