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...Stadium was the scene of the third annual rally of the Boy Scouts of Greater Boston Saturday afternoon when over 5,000 scouts, representing 11 districts and 42 cities and towns took part in a series of events ranging from wall-scaling to lighting a fire without matches. Fully 20,000 parents and friends of the scouts were present in the big amphitheatre to witness the exhibition which showed the unusual efficiency of the boys in first aid, woodcraft, and self-reliance...
Five thousand boys will take part in the third annual rally and demonstration of the Greater Boston Council of the Boy Scouts of America, to be held in the Stadium this afternoon. Beginning at 2 o'clock with a march in review, for which the Regiment Band will furnish music, the scouts will present a varied and extensive program lasting until "retreat" is sounded. Demonstrations as well as competitions, are included in the festivities...
Inspection day bears as dark terrors to the mind of the brave soldier as the first day of school does to the conventially unconventional bad little boy Last week, overcome by the agony of being looked at, one man in an unnamed company fell over, presumably from stage-fright or weakness of the knees, although the later diagnosis was unpatriotic German measles. Seeing him, in the next company men fell over by flocks. It is recorded that one corporal gave the command "Follow me!" and proceeded with appetite to bite the dust...
...young people are a little too prone to mistake excitement for duty. The outbreak of the war naturally makes people a little excited, but this is a time when every man and boy should have a more than usually keen sense of duty, should not allow excitement or exuberance of patriotism to deter him from performing to the best of his ability the obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady...
...Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more obvious liberation was opened. Russia is much like a small boy who has a job to do, but who, receiving the legacy of a dime, loses interest in that work which may only bring him a nickel...