CLASS I. RED HONORS
HEROISM
Honors are allowed for saving a human life at risk of one's own; it is an honor or a high honor, at the discretion of the Council. A soldier's war medals count for a high honor each. Courage. (The measure of courage has not yet been discov- ered.)
RIDING
To ride a horse i mile in 3 minutes, clearing a 4-foot hurdle and an 8- foot water-jump, counts honor; to do it in 2 minutes, clearing a 5-foot hurdle and a 12-foot water-jump, high honor. Trick-riding. To pick up one's hat from the ground while at full gallop on a horse of not less than 13 hands, counts honor. To do it 3 times without failure, from each side, with horse of at least 15 hands, counts high honor.
GENERAL ATHLETICS
(Advisers— J. E. Sullivan, secretary of Amateur Athletic Union; Dr. Luther H. Gulick, director of physical training, New York Public School) Those under 10 are children; those over 10 and under 14 are boys; those over 14 and under 18 are lads; those over 18 are men. Girls take the standards according to their ages up to 18, but for athletics are never over that. No matter what their age, thenceforth they continue in the " lad class," and in filing the claim need only mention their class. Men over 70 return to the lad class. The records are given according to Spalding's Almanac, where will be found the names of those who made them, with date and place. A dash ( — ) means " not open.
