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...standout performers back in George Lawry, who led the league in field goals in 1942-43, and Butch Van Breda Kolff. They handed a twenty-point defeat to Rutgers, which in turn Handed Columbia a three-point beating. The Tigers also absorbed a horrendous drubbing at the hands of Seton Hall, but the Setonians have won eleven straight games, and may rank with the nation's best. Followers of the Crimson will get their first opportunity to view their team against Ivy League opposition, when the Nassau quintet comes to the Boston Garden a week from tonight to oppose Bill...
...your tribute to the late Ernest Thompson Seton [TIME, Nov. 4], it seems to me you go a little beyond reason when you give him credit for having started the Boy Scout movement, apparently on the assumption that every good movement must have commenced in the United States. It is a matter of history that the Boy Scout movement was organized in Britain, by the late Lord Baden-Powell...
...Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908-six years after Seton established his "Tribe of Woodcraft Indians." In 1910 the organization spread to the U.S. and the "Boy Scouts of America" was incorporated, absorbing Seton's "Indians" and also the "Sons of Daniel Boone...
Then Ernest Thompson Seton had a vision that would restore all the youth of the world to nature. He blueprinted the organization of the Boy Scouts (with whose high command he later quarreled). Almost inevitably, the life and nature worship of the Indians obsessed him more & more. There seemed no other way out of civilization's ills...
Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...