The Evening Examiner, Peterborough Monday, July 17, 1922
C.S.E.T. BOYS HAVING TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Something Doing Every Minute at Rotary Camp
According to Walter Smaill, who returned from the Rotary Camp at Clear Lake yesterday. The C.S.E.T. boys there are having the time of their lives. Mr. Smaill opened the camp last Wednesday, and there has been something doing every minute of the time since. There are only 18 boys at the camp and there is room for as many more, and the P.A.A.A. director of athletics is hoping that 20 or 30 boys will go up and enjoy a holiday this week at the low cost of five dollars. Next Monday the C.S.E.T. boys turn the camp over to the Holy Name Society, who are anticipating a large attendance.
Allan Doughty is in charge of the camp, and has distinguished himself by developing sports, aquatic and otherwise. The boys are, however, also engaged in a serious and praiseworthy, attempt to help the Rotarians by painting the buildings and cleaning up the beach, and in this way just as the “Y” boys did by building a wharf, the C.S.E.T. boys are showing their appreciation of the action of the Rotary Club in establishing the camp.
In the evening the youthful campers have been entertained around the camp fire by speakers who have driven out from the city. Joseph Wearing discussed “Lumbering” and Dr. J. J. Middleton, “Why a Boy Should Matriculate.” This week there will be a speaker every other night, Mr. Smaill said. One rule has been observed very strictly in camp, and that is that no one can wear a starched collar. If a person so appears in camp the consequences are apt to be serious. Walter Smaill even found that he was not shown any special privileges, and the combined efforts of ten or twelve boys were sufficient yesterday when he dressed up to come home to precipitate him into eight feet of water, with the satisfactory result that the starched collar he ventured out in was reduced to the acceptable soft style for camp.
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Five dollars for a week of camp, and no starched collars – seems reasonable!
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