Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they don't get them, the way things are now. The Government takes and trains thousands of boys every summer at citizens' training camps free. Any boy can go there and learn to hike, camp, swim and shoot. They are shown how to take care of themselves in the outdoors...
...Reports which newspapermen gleaned from White House attaches last week affirmed that the President would summer in northern New York either at Saranac Lake or near Lake St. Regis at the camp of Irwin R. Kirkwood, whose wife, the daughter of William R. Nelson, founder of the Kansas City Star, recently died (TIME, March 8, THE PRESS...
...children shall be denied them through want of wit and learning. There is a boy of 17 who can con Vergil with any Etonian. A younger one-"Pedge" he was called-is bound for a medical career. He began by helping Tombino with the veterinary duties of the camp, and later-through Tombino's shrewdness and hospitality-acquired books on the subject from a London publicity-man, an Irishman with a bent for the free life, whom Tombino received first as a guest, then as an assistant in the coconut shies and finally, with due ceremony, as a blood...
...mouths stare like blackened cataracts on the human eye, and by night lights glare coldly. In Butte there are good homes and business blocks. But for the most part the dwellings, chop houses, onetime honky-tonks, have a temporary air, a helter-skelter appearance derived perhaps from the mining camp tradition...
...Whitney '17, Assistant Dean in charge of the Freshman Class, and T. S. Woods '20, have been secured as the chief speakers of the evening. Woods played guard on the University football team for two years and was chosen by Walter Camp as the premier American player in that position his last year. A. E. French '29 will preside at the Smoker and will introduce the speakers...