Word: boys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to do Boy Scout work should see E. D. Smith '12 at his office in Phillips Brooks House today between 8 and 12 o'clock. There are only a small number of vacancies and those desiring the positions should apply early today...
...CRIMSON is printing this morning a comprehensive account of the organization and the educational value of the Boy Scout Movement written by a Harvard alumnus. The purpose of the movement, which was started by Lieutenant-general Sir Robert Baden-powell in England so short a time ago as 1908, is, ultimately, to promote the interest of the rising generation in good citizenship, but as Mr. Holmes points out many subsidiary aims are accomplished. the method is one which must appeal to every sensible person in an age when life in the open air, and the ability to put hand...
...immense growth of the movement in the last three years, both in England--where the emphasis is largely military--and in America-where more attention is paid to craftsmanship--shows the need for some organizing element in the life of the boy. It is gratifying to know that so many Harvard men are giving their support to a work which has such great possibilities...
Last year there were twenty-five undergraduates who took part in the work as Scout-masters, and who trained troops of boys in the arts of tracking, craftsmanship, signalling, and first aid. This dose not count a number of men who were active in the summer. so far, during this year, about the same number of men have troops. while we believe that the number would be larger if more men were intimately acquainted with the nature of the work, we realize that a Scout Mastership is a position which requires an accurate knowledge of details which a boy...
...Peterson's work again declares his rare faculty of careful observation of outer nature and of personal emotion. In "Lost at Sea" Mr. Gilkey has wasted his finished metrical technique and his vivid sense of the rhythm of blank verse upon an incoherent story of a poetical cabin boy marooned upon a desert island by an ogre-like sea captain. Had the poem been long enough to admit of an explanation of the captain's hatred, the narrative might at least have seemed possible, but in the present clipped state of the poem horrid event follows horrid event without...