Play and Recreation for the Open Country

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Ginn, 1914 - Počet stran: 265
 

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Strana 136 - ON MY HONOR I WILL DO MY BEST : 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law; 2. To help other people at all times; 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Strana 126 - As fuel is brought to the fire, So I purpose to bring My strength, My ambition, My heart's desire, My joy, And my sorrow To the fire Of humankind, For I will tend As my fathers have tended, And my fathers' fathers Since time began, The fire that is called The love of man for man, The love of man for God.
Strana 136 - ... 1. Know the Scout law, sign, salute, and significance of the badge. 2. Know the composition and history of the national flag and the customary forms of respect due to it. 3. Tie four out of the following knots : square or reef, sheet-bend, bowline, fisherman's, sheepshank, halter, clove hitch, timber hitch, or two half hitches. He then takes the Scout oath, is enrolled as a Tenderfoot, and is entitled to wear the Tenderfoot Badge.
Strana 260 - This readable book, according to the prospectus, is "a handbook for teachers who think." "It is a plain and practical account of the life of the school from the standpoint of the social forces which are ever at work among pupils of all ages. It is not based upon mere ideals or philosophical abstractions but upon countless observations of schools of various kinds from the kindergarten up to the college grades. The book is full of the actual activities of living children, and its aim is to show how...
Strana 142 - God made the country, man made the town, but the Devil made the little country village.
Strana 262 - THE author's endeavor in preparing this work has been to create a new ideal in the training of the country child. The book is the result of seven years of very earnest thought and hard work in an endeavor to secure for the country child his rights so far as an educational opportunity is concerned. The country school should have that freedom which country life affords. This book has but little to say about the mechanics of school management. In the training of children and the development of character...
Strana 78 - For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
Strana 66 - Executive order, administered by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Strana 125 - It is my desire to become a Camp Fire Girl and to obey the law of the Camp Fire, which is to Seek beauty, Give service, Pursue knowledge, Be trustworthy, Hold on to health, Glorify work, Be happy. This law of the Camp Fire, I will strive to follow.
Strana 237 - Others have advised the administration of alkalies in the hope that they may favour absorption. The best that can be said for them is, that they are not likely to do much harm.

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