The Independent . THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A LONG, HARD HIKE. THIS CAMP HAS A SKETCH CLUB their important place, and for develop-ing mental alertness and physical con-trol baseball is about the best all-around game we have. So this camp hasa good deal of baseball, and all theboys belong to nines. Furthermore,they made their own diamond, justas they scraped and leveled and rolledtheir own tennis courts. In the beginning Sunday chapel washeld on the rocks by the shore, but athirteen-year-old lad made plans for arustic building along Gothic lines, andin about four days the camp built amost attractiv
The Independent . THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A LONG, HARD HIKE. THIS CAMP HAS A SKETCH CLUB their important place, and for develop-ing mental alertness and physical con-trol baseball is about the best all-around game we have. So this camp hasa good deal of baseball, and all theboys belong to nines. Furthermore,they made their own diamond, justas they scraped and leveled and rolledtheir own tennis courts. In the beginning Sunday chapel washeld on the rocks by the shore, but athirteen-year-old lad made plans for arustic building along Gothic lines, andin about four days the camp built amost attractive little chapel. Then anartistic genius, using waterproof trac-ing cloth, colored tissue paper and var-nish, made a beautiful window for thechapel which looked for all the worldlike stained glass. And this portraysthe basic idea behind the system. Theideas and actual work are given by theboys, so to an unusual degree theycome to feel that it is their camp. Now, of course, all this constructivework is very good fun, once you getat it. But the rub comes in
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