Scouting, Volume 3, Number 22, April 1, 1916 Page: 10
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SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOY SCOUTS OP AMERICA
SCOUTING
REVEALS
A
NEW
WORLD
TO
BLIND
BOYS.
tests must be met before they can graduate into first class scouts. The
requirements of the tenderfoot, second class, and first class scout are
as follows:
Requirements for Tenderfoot.
To become a scout a boy must be at least twelve years of age and
must pass a test in the following :
1. Know the Scout Law, sign, salute, and significance of the badge.
2. Know the composition and history of the national flag and the
customary forms of respect due to it.
3. Tie any four of the following knots: square or reef, sheet-bend,
bowline, fisherman's, sheepshank, halter, clove hitch, timber hitch, or
two half hitches.
He then takes the Scout Oath, is enrolled as a tenderfoot, and is
entitled to wear the tenderfoot badge.
Requirements for Second Class Scout.
To become a second class scout, a tenderfoot must pass, to the
satisfaction of the recognized local scout authorities, the following
tests:
1. At least one month's service as a tenderfoot.
2. Elementary first aid and bandaging: know the general direc-
tions for first aid for injuries; know treatment for fainting, shock,
fractures, bruises, sprains, injuries in which the skin is broken, burns,
and scalds : demonstrate how to carry injured, the use of the trian-
gular and roller bandages and tourniquet.
3. Elementary signaling: know the Semaphore or the Interna-
tional Morse alphabet.
4. Track half a mile in twenty-five minutes; or, if in town, describe
satisfactorily the contents of one store window out of four observed
for one minute each.
5. Go a mile in twelve minutes at scout's pace—about fifty steps
running and fifty walking, alternately.
6. Use properly knife or hatchet.
7. Prove ability to build a fire in the open, using not more than
two matches.
8. Cook a quarter of a pound of meat and two potatoes in the open
without the ordinary kitchen cooking utensils.
9. Earn and deposit at least one dollar in a public bank.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 3, Number 22, April 1, 1916, periodical, April 1, 1916; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282801/m1/12/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.