Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...school for Boy Scout masters, made necessary by the prevailing lack of men eligible for positions in the scout service, has been organized and is open to all members of the University. This course, the meetings of which are to be held at Boston University, will extend throughout a period of three months. There will be no expense attached, instruction will be individual and under the tutelage of experts, and the amount of time occupied will consist only of weekly meetings coming every Thursday. The period of apprenticeship over, a scout master is expected to devote two hours a week...
...school are three in number: the applicant must be of age, though not subject to draft for military service; he must consent to pursue the three months' schooling to the end; he must be able and willing to serve without pay for two years as a scout master...
...such numbers has the war drawn scout leaders from their former service that the present call for candidates is an urgent one. Further particulars are obtainable at 9 University Hall...
Many of the workers are engaged in some special form of special service. For example, six men are doing Juvenile Court and Associated Charities work, 15 are teaching Sunday Schools, and 10 are leading Boy Scout troops. The following table shows the exact number of men engaged and the kind of work done: Leaders of boys clubs, 156 Teaching, 31 Sunday School teachers, 15 Boy Scout leaders, 10 Probation workers, Juvenile Court, 4 Friendly visitors, Associated Charities, 2 Miscellaneous, 14 Total...
Applicants are accepted only for general service, and no men will be enrolled higher than chief petty officer. Those who enlist and remain in the seaman branches of the service will probably be used on the 110-foot scout boats, on transports, or on the convoy vessels of the Navy as soon as their period of training has come...