THE OOLOGIST. 



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A. M. 



G:00. Reveille. 



«:15. Reveille roll-call. 



<i:20. Fatigue call. 



<j:4r). Mess call. 



7:80.' Inspection. 



7:50. Company dnll. 



8:30. Gymnastics. 



8:45. Swimming, (voluntaiy). 



p. M. 



12:30. Mess call. 



4:15. Swimming, (v<iluntary). 



6:00. Mess call. 



Sunset. Di'ess Parade and Retreat. 



9:15. Tattoo. 



9:30. Taps. 



Any l)oy may go to bed immediately 

 after retreat. 



This arrangement gives the boj^s 

 thirteen and t)ne-half hours per day 

 free time, for lectures, games, excur- 

 sions and other oc^cupations. Sunday 

 is a day of rest in camp, as elsewhere. 

 Services are held in the Dodge Pavilion 

 in the afternoon by Worcester pastors. 



THE lp:ctukes. 

 Lectures given on scientific subjects 

 by students and teachers, some of 

 Avhom are eminent in their sj^ecialties, 

 are made popular and easy of compre- 

 hension. Specimens, drawings, the 

 microscope, telescope and stereopticon, 

 are all used in demonstrating and illus- 

 trating. The boys are not compelled 

 to attend, but it has been found by ex- 

 perience that many of them will volun- 

 tarily attend, and that nearly all of 

 them become interested in one or more 

 subjects. 



THE WORKSHOP, LABOKATORV AND 

 STUDIO. 



The society has a large, Avell lighted 

 and Avell appointed workshop on the 

 grounds. This is fitted up with bench- 

 es, etc., and supplied with tools. It 

 will be in charge of Mr. E. C. Ware, 

 late superintendent of a large manu- 

 factory in Pennsylvania, who will teach 

 the boys how to use and care for tools. 

 Mr. A. A. Coburn will build boats or 

 canoes in the workshop during the 

 summer, and explain the manner of 

 building as the work proceeds. 



A new departure will be made this 

 year in the upper rooms of the work- 

 shop. A room will be fitted up for 

 phcjtographiL' work by Mr. John M. 

 Bemis, who has devoted much time to 

 photographing microscopic objects. 

 He will instruct the boys in practical 

 photography, and will prepare photo- 



log camps, etc. 

 and swimming 

 years proved of 

 continued under 

 An experienced 



graphs of microsopic objects, for use by 

 other teachers. Rooms will be tilted 

 up, one for biological work; one for a 

 studio for drawing and modeling in 

 clay, and another for preparing speci- 

 mens. Two skilled taxidermists will 

 give lessons in their art. 



PKACTICAL OUT-DOOH LESSONS. 



The hunter will teach the boys the 

 haunts and habits ;)f the game and 

 lish, how to Uiake a camp-tire, pitch a 

 tent, handhi an axe, cut wood. Iniild 

 The lessons in rowing 

 which ha\'e in past 

 great value, will be 

 "etticient instructors. 

 i)ee-luuiter Iris been 

 engaged to take the boys on bee hunts 

 several times during the season. The 

 out-door s:<.etching under the care of a 

 New York artist will be made a special 

 feature, and a systematic course given 

 during the eight weeks (^f camp. Oat- 

 door evening less(jns (ju astronomy, 

 illustrated with the telescope, will be 

 given, during the season. 



EXCURSION?. 



The experience of the past few years 

 goes to prove that the l)est way to en- 

 list the inteiest of boj's in the study of 

 Natural History, is to take them (jut in- 

 to the woods and fields. Here the in- 

 structor comes nearer the learner than 

 is usual in the class-room. He is, iu 

 fact, not so much of a teacher, as a 

 student, whose studies' the pupil is per- 

 mitted to witness and share. In these 

 excursions the teacher is simply a 

 leader, whose methods of procedure 

 are watched by the class, and whose 

 suggestions or remarks are dropped in- 

 cidently, or called forth by questions 

 from individual pupils. It is found 

 that many of the boys catch the spirit 

 of observation with surprising alacrity 

 when it is thus diffused like an atmos- 

 pliere round the path of an enthusiastic 

 student of nature. While the natural 

 acti\ity of the Ijoy is exercised by 

 walking, (dimbing, rowing, etc., his 

 perceptive faculties are developed by 

 the continuid out-look to discover new 

 objects, and the observation of those 

 pointed out to him by the teacher. 

 Specimens taken are exhibited on the 

 spot, or passed from hand to. hand; 

 comments are made on them by the 

 teacher, and thus the boys learn with- 

 out efl'ort many things they will long 

 remember, and are stimulated to fur- 

 ther observation and retiectit>n. No 

 te.xt books are used in any department. 



