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Thus, while contributing something toward the 

 entertainment of all, each boy's active participation 

 will go far by way of awakening his personal interest 

 in the new life. 



3. Receptions and suppers. After the boys get 

 fairly under way with their club, they may need 

 to arrange an oyster supper or some such affair 

 at which they will discuss their many mutual prob- 

 lems. On some such occasions they may desire 

 to invite their parents to come and enjoy the program, 

 also to participate in the discussion of their affairs. 

 This form of close association will be found especially 

 enticing to the boys, giving them a good, clean 

 place to go for social enjoyment and something 

 to look forward to in their thoughts during the some- 

 what prosaic hours of the day in the field. 



4. Educational tours and problems. The boys 

 may find it feasible to go in a body once or twice a 

 year on an educational tour to the state fair ; to 

 study some particular thing in the city ; to gather 

 data for the solution of some local problem; to 

 make a study of the habitat of some bird or ani- 

 mal ; to gather specimens of rocks or plants ; and 

 so on. In case of any such trip there is not a little 

 necessity of some college-trained person as overseer, 

 so that the study may be made intensive and not 

 become dissipated in mere sport and fun. It is 

 usually advisable to make a careful study of only 

 one thing at a time. 



