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Girl Scouts   /gərl skaʊts/   Listen
Girl Scouts

noun
1.
An organization of young women and girls founded in 1912 for character development and citizenship training.





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"Girl Scouts" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the Girl Scouts of America. The fact is, I think I was always a Girl Scout myself (although the name was unknown); yes, from the very beginning. Even my first youthful story was "scouty" in tone, if I may invent a word. Then for a few years afterward, when I was "scoutingly" busy educating ...
— The Girl Scouts: A Training School for Womanhood • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... should prove desirable. "What would you like to do?" she asked. "Dance!" was the reply. "Well, then, dance, and show me what dances you like," replied the librarian, and immediately the girls formed for a figure of a folk-dance, and each girl humming softly the tune they danced it through. "The Girl Scouts" Club was formed, and in a day or two the secretary of the club submitted the following program for the librarian's approval: Program. 1. Chapter from the life of Louisa M. Alcott; 2. Recitations; 3. Games, Flinch; ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... believe in the Girl Scouts, for in this organization the girls learn all these things in such a happy way that they like to do them, which means that ...
— Educational Work of the Girl Scouts • Louise Stevens Bryant
... not aspire to be a scout. The young propagandist had forgotten to tell her of the Girl Scouts who can do a few things, if you please. But one thing Pepsy could do; she could worship at the feet of ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... girls' clubs in agriculture and home economics, the boy and girl scouts, the campfires, the little mothers' leagues, the health crusades, the Y.M.C.A and Y.W.C.A., and other organizations for children and youth, have created new interest in certain aspects of school work and are a source of educational ...
— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson


Words linked to "Girl Scouts" :   organization, organisation, Girl Scout


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