Word: seton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas he taught spread fast. Within six months after Birkenhead there were 80,000 scouts in Britain. The movement spread abroad as well. In 1910 the Boy Scouts of America were organized in a combination of such existing groups as Ernest Thompson Seton's Indians and Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone. At the Third World Jamboree in 1929 Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Chief of the Boy Scouts of the World, met with 50,000 scouts from 73 countries. That year raised to the peerage for his work, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell had built...
...points, 59 to 47, and losing their only game to Toledo 59 to 46. St. John's fell by the large score of 74 to 55, Tufts lost 61 to 34, Vermont dropped a 47 to 18 contest, Fordham battled to a one point defeat, 53 to 52, and Seton Hall fell behind...
February 22: Seton Hall, at South Orange...
Said Roosevelt: "Burroughs and the people at large don't know how many facts you have back of your stories. You must publish your facts." Result: Seton's Life Histories of Northern Animals and Lives of Game Animals (six volumes). He now murmurs: "Every scientific library in America today points to Seton's Lives as the last word and best authority on the subject." Seton also organized a woodcraft movement for lads under the petticoats of bird-loving Edward Bok's Ladies' Home Journal...
Writes Biologist-Rhetorician Donald Culross Peattie: "What science calls for today are life histories and ecological studies. . . ." So, while Seton's woodlore was never taken overseriously as science, science is moving his way. Meanwhile, bird feeders and fireside gun polishers can en joy Seton's accounts of moose hunts under golden moons, blue jays protecting their young by imitating hawk screams. And insomniacs may heed his observation, "a sheep's ears must point forward as he leaps...