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...ridicule, Baden-Powell started the organization in England. He first won the approval of Lord Roberts and in 1909 paid a visit to Edward VII at Balmoral. His enthusiasm carried the old King away, and when the veteran left Balmoral he carried not only the royal approval but a Knighthood and the Star of a Knight Commander of the Victorian Order for himself. Three years later there were 400,000 Boy Scouts in England...
...Herbert Barker, for the cures he effected among War wounded soldiers, received the honor of knighthood and obtained practical, if irregular, recognition of his skill while Dr. Axham, now a very old man, being deprived of his means of livelihood, has been in considerable financial straits...
...began his political career as Liberal M. P. for Reading; and under Premier Asquith (now Lord Oxford), became first Solicitor General with a knighthood, then Attorney General with a seat in the Cabinet-the first Attorney General to be so honored...
...voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie...
Knights. The National Child Welfare Association has a unique plan for improving bad boys. "We will make knights of them," it decided, thereupon founded the "Knighthood of Youth" (or "The Order of Character"). These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They...