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When attendance at camps such as these is made obligatory for the young men of the nation, when the farmer's boy and the banker's boy, the son of the brakeman or mill worker and the son of the manufacturer or railroad president, the college boy and the public schoolboy rub shoulders together in military training, share the same dog-tents and recognize the equality of obligation that rests upon them all, the fibre of democracy in this country will have been immeasurably strengthened...
...features of the rally of the Greater Boston Council of Boy Scouts to be held in the Stadium Saturday will be a country circus, to be presented by picked troops who have shown unusual originality in providing entertainment of a ludicrous nature. There will be an exhibition parade, the boys to be dressed as clowns, and there will be numerous cages containing stuffed animals performing tricks that circus animals have never been trained...
...circus is but one of a dozen or more examples of original work that the boys will demonstrate for the first time before a large audience. The trek cart contests will illustrate the great value of this invention in boy scout equipment. Five troops will take part in it, each troop to enter a cart and a team of ten scouts, eight on the rope and two to steer. The teams will start on a given line and run seventy yards. The carts will then be converted into tables and benches, and after a few more details they will...
...Regiment, and a drill by the best company and battalion of the Regiment. Those who will review the ceremonies include Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, Governor McCall, Mayor Curley, representatives of the G. A. R., and several naval and militia officers stationed in the vicinity of Boston. Boy Scouts will act as ushers...
...letter Stevenson wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads as follows: Hyeres, Var, France...