The tests in Camps Durrell and Becket are based upon Baden-Powell’s book, “Scouting for Boys,” and have proven very successful. They are as follows:
HONOR EMBLEMS AND A WARDS 285
HONOR PLAN
DISCIPLINE.
1. Doing camp duty promptly, efficiently and
cheerfully. (5 points)
2. Participating promptly in preparing tents,
baggage and beds for
Inspection. (4 points.)
3. Loyalty to captain in all games. (5 points.)
OBSERVATION. 1. Observe the ways of birds, animals
and people and jot down a sketch
of them in a notebook.
(3 points.) 2. Take a walk and upon return to
the camp write upon the following
six subjects.
(a) Nature of by-ways of paths. (b) Different kinds
of trees you noticed. (c) People you met. (d) Peculiar
smells of plants. (e) Kind of fences you saw. (f)
Sounds you heard. (3 points.) 3. Observe sanitary
and hygienic disorder and correct the same.
(5 points.)
4. After the reading aloud of a story write an
account of it. (3 points.)
WOODCRAFT.
1. Observe the tracks of birds and animals and
distinguish them.
(2 points.)
2. Identify fifteen birds, or fifteen trees,
or fifteen flowers, or
fifteen minerals. (2 points.)
3. Tie a square knot, a weaver’s knot,
a slip knot, a flemish coop, a
bowline, a half, timber clove, boom
hitches, stevedore and wall end
knots, blackwall and catspaw turn
and hitch hook hitches. (2 points.)
4. Make a “star” fire and cook a
meal upon it for the boys of your tent.
(3 points.)
5. Find the south at any time of day by the sun
with the aid of a watch.
(1 point.)
6. Estimate the distance across water. (1 point.)
7. Judge the time of day by the sun. (1 point.)
8. Read the signs of the weather by the sun,
wind and clouds. (2 points.)
9. Make something useful for the camp. (5 points.)
HEALTH. 1. Promptness, erect carriage and earnestness
in setting up drill.
(3 points.)
2. Gain made in physical development during the
time in camp. (2 points.) 3. Essay upon the camp-fire
talks on “Personal Hygiene.” (3 points.)
4. Care of tent, clothing and baggage, in dry
and wet weather. (3 points.) 5. Cleanliness of
person. (3 points). 6. Proper eating at meals.
(5 points.) 7. Win first place in the athletic
or aquatic events. (2 points.)
CHIVALRY. (Among the laws of the Knights was this: “Chivalry requireth that youth should be trained to perform the most laborious and humble offices with cheerfulness and grace: and to do good unto others.”) 1. Do a good turn to somebody every day. (3 points.) 2. Control tongue and temper. (5 points.) 3. Participate in some entertainment. (2 points.) 4. Secure the approval of the leaders. (2 points.) 5. Promptness in attending Chapel services. (2 points.)
SAVING LIFE. 1. Be able to swim fifty yards
and return without stopping. (1 point.) 2. Pass
the examinations in Life Saving and First Aid Work
by written
and demonstration work. (5 points.)
3. Row from wharf to a given point and back in
a given time. (1 point.)