One of the significant developments of recent years is the summer camp for girls and boys, a recognition of the value of outdoor life pre-eminently as well as an educational opportunity which pays remarkably high returns on an investment of summer leisure.
There are as many kinds of camps og there are individuals heading the group, or perhaps it would be truer to say that the composite personalities of the girls thrown so intimately together makes the peculiar characteristic of a camp. Each has its own name, its prized traditions, its distinctive uniform, songs and customs. It is im America that the camp idea has been most fully developed and for an intensive study of this instituxgtion no better spot can be selected "than Fairlee, Vermont, where 1 around the shores of Lakes Morey and Fairlee some 16 camps nestle.
Keen rivalry, as well as friendly cooperation in inter-camp affairs is found and to strengthen the feeling of sisterhood the Upper Connecticut Valley Association has been. formed to encourage a_ closer acquaintanceship and coordination of the girls' camps in the neighbourhood. The annual inter-camp frolic was held at the end of July and almost 2,000 girls and counsellers met on the green at the fower end of Lake Fairlee for a camp visit and to present an unusually beautiful pageant of colour and movement.
The Fairlees Lake Camps were hostesses of the afternoon for the guests, from Morey, Thetford, Pike and Lyme. Motor after motor rolled up and poured out campers eager to inspect the camps on the lake and see what other girls were doing in this fascinating blend of sport and education. For two hours all the Jake camps were thrown open, with the heads at home to callers and campers detuiled as guides to show off the camps' "best loved beauties, thoroughly appreciated by-. the "company," whose loyalty to the charms of their home camps was nevertheless unshaken.
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