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Excerpt from Camp and Outing Activities Play forms a very large part in the social adjustment of boyhood. Play teaches a boy loyalty, team work, cooperation, the philosophy of sacrifice, humility, respect for the rights of others, promptness, self-mastery, subordination to leadership, courage, and many other virtues necessary to make him a useful and worthy member of society. Lessons learned on the campus prepare for the seriousness of the greater game of life itself; therefore the play life of a camp is most important and should be carefully directed. Every camp director and leader is confronted with the task of keeping the life of the camp free from monotony and "grouchiness." This book is calculated to make the task lighter. It is crammed with suggestions so that no two days of the camping season need be alike. "Something doing" all the time is the best testimony a boy can give of a camp. He may only see the fun side of the doing, but the leader must always see the character-building value in every activity if the camp is to be a vital factor in making manhood. Misdirected energy results in a misspent summer, and a weakened character. Harnessed energy brings joy of achievement, cooperation, opportunity, and a happy vacation. A boys' camp is no longer looked upon as a loafers' paradise or a school for rough-house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.