Word: boys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to call the attention of members of the University to a class for the instruction of boy scout leaders which meets first on Wednesday, January...
Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...
...plea that an effort be made to renew its hold. But has the University ever had any influence on the plan of study in such institutions? When it is seen that more than half the public high schools of Massachusetts have not sent to Harvard a single boy in ten years, it is clear that the true answer is negative. The great mass of high schools throughout the country do their own work in their own way, regardless of the regulations of admission to Harvard or any other college...
Following two selections by the Glee Club, S. B. Steele '11 spoke of the many opportunities offered by the undergraduate interests outside of college work. Dr. A. P. Fitch '00, representing the religious life of the University, said that nowhere was it so easy for a boy to be a normal youth as in a school of learning. If a man at Harvard gets to a point where he brings discredit upon himself, it is so much the worse, because there is little excuse. Following this, Dr. Fitch spoke about the great advantages of services in Appleton Chapel...
...indeed, these two gentlemen developed a great property and made it a wonder of safety and good management. To the end he was as simple in his ways and as kindly and affectionate in his greetings to old friends as a man could be, and the change from the boy to the man often did not appear...