The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.