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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME said: "The Scouts . . . are often pointed to as a potent reserve behind the national arms for peace or war." The Scout Manual, in answering the question, "What is a Boy Scout?" says: "A scout is a patriot and is always ready to serve his country at a minute's notice. ... He desires a strong body, an alert mind and an unconquerable spirit so that he may serve his country in any need. . . . A scout chooses as his motto 'Be Prepared...
...partial answer would be that famed Tsarist Commander Peter Nikolaievich Wrangel, Baron Wrangel claims to have a potential army numbering "40,000 White Knights" (TIME, Dec. 27), the members of which are banded together and employed in manual labor as a self-supporting colony in Jugoslavia and pledged to fight for "Holy Russia...
...able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge in any other time besides winter. By travel, manual labor, diverse means, he can both busy himself and learn. Education is restricted neither to the classroom, nor the nine hibernal months, and the summer is assuming the position of a laboratory, an opportunity for instructive and sometimes remunerative field work...
Besides Professor Haskins' history of Mediaeval Science, mentioned above, there are three works listed under science. They are "Delusion and Belief," by C. M. Campbell, professor of Phychiatry; "Nurses and Nursing," by Dr. Alfred Worcestor '78, H. K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene; "A Laboratory Manual of Dynamic and Structural Geology", by K. F. Mather, associate professor of Physiography, and S. R. G Lusk, and instructor in Geology, and "Saving Eyesight after Mid Life", by J. H. Waite, M. D. '11, of the Medical School...
...courses in Education include such subjects as Education for Character; Extra-Curricular Activities in the Secondary School; Educational Statistics; and Problems in Manual Training and Mechanics Arts Education...