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Page 16 - The school and college — and the home as well — are not sending forth their daughters with a reserve of strength and steady nerve as a preparation for living.
Page 209 - We join our voices now in song, Our hearts beat high with joy that lives, And thrills, inspires and makes us strong, The joy that only Nature gives. We love the woods, the birds and flowers, The thirsting sun and the quenching rain. We '11 count with pleasure all the hours, Till with joy our camps may meet again.
Page 222 - ... of the Freudian Lid, Though my praise no man or woman chants. Chorus Although all things immoral he can cipher at a glance And singlehanded keeps us clothed in literary pants There's none at home nor yet abroad who honours him with chants, Except our Cabinet Ministers, their brothers in the Manse, Their sisters and their cousins, whom they reckon up by dozens, and their aunts!
Page 82 - Thus equipped and in high spirits, they swing along the road to the station, and, with the aid of passing automobiles or their own good muscles, reach there in time for the train, which is soon bearing them far away from camp and everyday scenes into a new world of rare and wonderful experiences. It is noon when they reach the little station at...
Page 58 - There are many such cases of pluck and perseverance as girls keep advancing from one class in swimming to the next by passing various strokes and dives. Keen excitement is added to this by the record-chart, a bulletin, kept hanging in a conspicuous place, which records the advancement of every girl in camp. To see another star opposite your name is surely a great incentive to keep on working at the over-arm, crawl, or back dive.
Page 83 - ... that looks like the end, only to find that it is the signpost that marks the half-way point of the trail. This trip, we are told by a seasoned camper from one of the older White Mountain camps, affords a good opportunity to develop character. Perhaps so. At any rate, it serves to bring out the hidden qualities of a camper as many weeks in camp might fail to do.
Page 110 - The girls' camps in America will join in a friendly rivalry to see which one will contribute the greatest sum per capita. Here, then, is an opportunity for you to show not only your camp spirit, but likewise your patriotism to our country and your desire to do a piece of constructive work in the present war. The response to this appeal from the camp directors was generous and fine and was but one more expression of the patriotism, the spirit of service, and devotion to the needs of humanity to be...
Page 47 - It would take too long to tell the whole story of the passage of the Louisiana Library Commission Law in the legislative session of 1920.
Page 81 - But what does it matter so long as one gets there in time to get into the fray? Everybody helps it along — jostling and crowding, embracing their tent-mates, and calling and shouting good-by. And when the party finally breaks away and starts out on the run in sheer self-defense, the stay-at-homes line up and sing to them until they are away down the road and out of sight.
Page 89 - ... campers usually climb by the beautiful Glen trail, and spend the night on top, where there are entrancing views in every direction — on one side, the broad fields of the valley of the upper Connecticut, with that winding stream in the foreground and the Green Mountains beyond, and on the other lofty peaks of the White Mountains.